FCT Admin Stops Private Schools From Reopening

By Ayodele Oluwafemi

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has faulted the plan of some private school owners to resume 2019/2020 third term without prior notice from the Federal Government.

FCTA urged private schools owners to maintain “status quo” as the moment, while also urging parents and guardians to ignore the purported resumption.

The acting Education Secretary for FCT, Umar Marafa, in a statement, on Tuesday, noted academic activities in all schools shall commence when a notice of approval is convey by the secretariat.

Marafa said the earlier notice of school closed down was “until further notice”.

He said the next academic calendar will be streamlined to address the fallout of the second term academic calendar, as it was inclusive due to the Coronavirus lockdown.

Part of the statement reads, “The Education Secretariat wishes to remind School proprietors, parents and the general public that the directive closing all schools at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic explicitly stated that this directive was in effect “until further notice” which implies that no academic activities in all Schools in any form shall commence until a notice to reopen is approved and conveyed by the Secretariat.

“The Implication of this is that when the Schools will be reopened, adequate notice of the fact that 2nd term was inconclusive will be factored into the academic calendar which will dovetail into the 3rd term accordingly. Any action taken otherwise is likely to negatively distort the academic calendar of the schools involved.

“In light of the above, any School purporting to reopen for 3rd term before the approved calendar for opening of School post Covid-19 is doing so against the provisions of the extant guidelines on the establishment and operation of Schools in the FCT.

“School proprietors  are therefore, advised to maintain the status quo and keep their schools closed and not re-open in any form while they await  further directives from the FCTA.  Violators of this directive will face the full wrath of the law.”

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