By Okey Alozie
The purported ceding of Junior Secondary Schools and its administration to the Universal Basic Education Board in Imo State is said to have generated a lot of controversies in the Education Sector as the teachers and students in Imo JSS have refused to accept IMSUBEB directives.
Moreover the authority of the Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB) has stated that the edict No 3 of 1989 establishing the Secondary Education Management Board has not been replaced, adding that it is important to note that the Executive Secretary of the Board has responsibility of recruiting, posting and transferring of Teachers and Principals.
IMSUBEB on its part has sent warning to SEMB insisting that SEMB should hands off from the administration of JSS.
Last week a Director from IMSUBEB sent a warning letter to SEMB demanding that the Secondary Education Management SEMB should stop encroaching into JSS to transfer any principal or teacher.
The transfer of duty principal at Emii Secondary Technical School in Owerri North LGA of Imo State has brought war between IMSUBEB and SEMB and if care is not take as we gathered the crisis may escalate into a physical combat.
Our source revealed that the alleged fight between the two principals at that particular school made the SEMB Boss Adaugo Nwanebo to send the Principal on punitive transfer but IMSUBEB intervened.
The transfer of Nnaji P.N (Mrs) from Emii Secondary Technical did not go down well with IMSUBEB as we were told and for that the Director of IMSUBEB wrote a letter of warning to SEMB.
It could be recalled also that a similar thing happened at Owerre Ebiri Secondary School Orlu where principals of JSS and principals of SSS allegedly fought because of palm fruit and disciplinary committee set up indicted one of the principals and as a result she asked to proceed on a punitive transfer to the Zonal Board. Thereafter IMSUBEB intervened.
We were told that IMSUBEB reversed the transfer made by SEMB and directed that the principal in question should go to Orogwe secondary school in Owerri West LGA.
The action of IMSUBEB made the teachers and principals of secondary schools to get more confused and as a result, the matter was taken to Government House Owerri for clarification.
It has now been cleared, Trumpeta learnt, that IMSUBEB has no capacity to manage Junior Secondary Schools in Imo State. Government House was said to have issued an order warning IMSUBEB to desist from meddling into the management of Junior Secondary Schools in the State.
Government House was also to have disclosed that the Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma never directed the ceding of junior secondary schools to IMSUBEB.
