Delta Govt Suspends Headmistress | Nairalaw

The Delta State government has suspended the headmistress of
Okotie-Eboh Primary School 1, Sapele Local Government of the state,
Mrs. Vero Igbigwe.

She was suspended following the viral video where little Success
Adegor was sent home over her parents’ failure to pay her
examination levies.

Igbigwe was suspended on Monday when the Commissioner for
Education, Barr. Chiedu Ebie, visited the school.

The head teacher, according to the commissioner, could not
explain the alleged illegal collection of examination levies from
the school students.

A statement by the commissioner explained why primary and
secondary education in Delta remained free, insisting the head
teacher had no right to impose any levy.

He said: “In my brief encounter with the Head Teacher this
morning, there appeared to be numerous inconsistencies in her
response on this issue as she was unable to categorically state who
authorized her to impose the levies or fees which is in clear
breach of the extant rules.

“Consequently I have directed the State Universal Basic
Education Board (SUBEB) to suspend the Head Teacher pending the
outcome of a formal enquiry into the issue of unauthorised levies/
and fees imposed by her in the School.”

On concerns over infrastructural decay in the school, Ebie said:
“Having discovered the dilapidated state of the infrastructure in
the Schools, steps were immediately taken by the State Government,
through the Ministry of Basic & Secondary Education, to carry
out a phased renovation and upgrade of the infrastructural
facilities beginning with Okotie Eboh Primary School II.

“It is important to place on record and for the avoidance of
doubt that the Contract of the first phase was awarded on the 29th
of December, 2018 and work has since commenced.”