Ogun State: Parents to sign undertaking for students

By Abimbola Abatta

Ogun State Government has said parents of students in public secondary schools would start signing undertakings on behalf of their wards to curb unruly conducts in schools.

The development is part of measures to curb hooliganism and cultism so as to ensure peace within and outside the school environments.

The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, disclosed this on Friday while defending the ministry’s 2022 budget before members of the Ogun House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation in Abeokuta.

Arigbabu assured that the government had redoubled its efforts in ensuring that the menace was nipped in the bud.

According to him, stakeholders including parents, teachers and security agents have come up with different approaches that would holistically address emerging misconducts among students.

He explained that a School-Based Management Committee was being put in place to serve as interdisciplinary source to track and report any act inimical to peace within the school environments.

The Commissioner said the ministry was equally reviving sporting activities to further engage pupils in extra-curriculum activities, in addition to the resuscitation of moral teaching during morning devotions.

He stated further that the ministry would empower secondary school principals and strengthen the school-based management committee toward profiling all pupils in the schools to weed off the bad eggs.