Kogi tasks communities to take responsibility of schools

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Yahaya Bello, Kogi Governor.

Kogi Government has solicited the co-operation of communities, groups and other stakeholders to take collective responsibility and ownership of schools in the state.

Mrs Rosemary Osikoya, the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, made the call at the Expanded Management meeting of stakeholders in education, held at Kogi State Polytechnic on Friday in Lokoja.

According to Osikoya, the schools belong to the communities as they remain critical stakeholders to the education sector.

She said there had been a whole lot of disconnection between communities and schools in their respective domains.

She added that “it is not enough to just blame government: we need to examine ourselves because people drive the sector: communities must own up to the ideal of education.”

The commissioner, therefore, urged the industrious sons and daughters of…



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