The Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State has reiterated its stand to ban teachers and children from hawking during school hours.
The council also vowed to henceforth arrest and jail any parents whose child or ward defaults the ban.
The Public School Supervision Committee (PSSC) chairman, Dr. Amadi Aroh, said this on Friday during a meeting with Education Secretaries, Headteachers and the School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) in Ogbede.
Aroh warned that the Committee would no longer tolerate teachers who habitually use school hours to engage in other businesses and asked such teachers to resign.
He blamed teachers, who were not dedicated to their duties, for the loss of trust in public schools, saying the action encouraged parents to enroll their children and wards in private schools.
While noting that most private schools were not standard, the PSSC chairman pledged the…
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