The Kwara
Government said on Thursday that it had closed 132 illegal private schools
operating in the state.
Zainab Bello, the Director of Quality Assurance in the
Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, said apart from being
illegal, the schools were operating in unhygienic environment.
Ms. Bello, who spoke on behalf of Musa Yeketi, the
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, while closing 19
other private schools, said government had begun verification of tertiary
institutions in the state.
She said that the objective of the exercise was to fish
out those violating the laws that established them.
Ms. Bello said that the government had previously shut
down schools which were either built with wooden planks or operating without
due authorisation from the state government.
The director assured of the state government’s commitment
to ensure quality education, stressing that government would continue to close
private schools operating illegally.
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