Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has flagged off the distribution of free canvas, sandals, stockings and stipend to pupils and students in the state.
This is to ensure that free education in the state is second to none in Nigeria and that education remains the primary concern of the Rescue Government.
Performing the flag-off ceremony at the Owerri City School, Wetheral Road, Okorocha said education is the right of every child and it must be free for every child to be involved.
He pointed out that there is no alternative to it. The governor also launched at the event a programme he called Parents Teachers Child Continuous Assessment Programme (PTCCAP), which will foster a great synergy among government, teachers, students and parents to monitor the progress of their children’s academic /moral performance. The governor directed that for the distribution of the free materials and the paying of the stipend, the government representative, parents, mentor, the teacher and the child must be present to make sure that every child gets his or her material and also to give relevance to the collaborative effort as depicted in PTCCAP.
The governor, while promising to open hotline for Imo schools to ease communication among teachers and parents further directed in the spirit of PTCCP that the class teacher will have the phone numbers of the parents of the children in his or her class with which to call them for emergency and also to ascertain the where about of the child while others are in school.
Also, the social welfare of the centre and the wife of the governor of Imo State, Nneoma Nkechi Rochas Okorocha, said the whole idea of the ceremony was to prepare the children for leadership of tomorrow because the leadership of today will one day hand over to future generation. dailyindependent
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