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By John Okekwu
Following the deliberation on the report of an ad-hoc committee set
up by Kogi State House of Assembly to investigate the removal from
office of Mr. TJ Abdullahi and Mr. I.A Agbali as principals of
Government Secondary School (GSS), Ologba and Government Day
Secondary School (GDSS), Dekina respectively, the House has directed
that the affected principals be posted to other schools as classroom
teachers.
The directive was given to the Teaching Service Commission and
Ministry of Educattion by the speaker, Hon. Clarence Olafemi, after
the report was subjected to a thorough debate by members who finally
arrived at the conclusion that the ministry of Education should
temper justice with mercy and reabsorb the dismissed principals and
should be posted out to other schools to serve as deterrent to
others.
The two embattled principals, (Mr. Abdulahhi of GSS Ologba and Mr.
Aghali of GDSS Dekina) had petitioned the House of Assembly alleging
that they were wrongly removed from office by the Commissioner for
Education and urged the House to intervene and reinstate them.
The report of the ad-hoc committee which was presented by its
chairman, Hon. Jatto Idris. Adamu indicted the two principals of
dereliction of duty as well as being recalcitrant towards carrying
out directives from the teaching service commission.
The committee however, advised that subsequent action on any such
officers should be thoroughly handled by disciplinary committee with
application of due process before being subjected to such punishment
as removal from office.
The committee also recommended that under no circumstances should
Teaching Service Commission allow a principal to spend more than
three years in a particular school so as to avoid undue behaviour.
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