Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has told the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) to limit its operations to curriculum formulation, monitoring and implementation, rather than takeover of secondary school administration in the country.
He spoke yesterday when he hosted NSSEC officials, who were in the state for a one-day advocacy and sensitisation workshop on the establishment of the commission, with education stakeholders in the Southwest.
Akeredolu said that the hue and cry about restructuring was about devolving power to the states to make them function.
He said the fiscal policy and over-centralisation of power in the hands of the Federal Government had turned Nigeria into a unitary country.
The governor said the many items on the exclusive list concentrated too much power in the hands of the Federal Government, adding that the unity of the country was based on sustainable true federalism.
The Executive Secretary of the commission, Dr. Benjamin Abakpa, said the sensitisation in the geopolitical zone was to get policy makers informed why the commission was set up.
He said regulation of secondary school education, intervention in areas of needs and setting minimum standards are objectives before the commission to actualise, in a bid to strengthen post-primary level of education in the country.
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