The Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Kate Omenugha has said that the present administration desired credible, quality and value based education in the state.
Professor Omenugha stated this during a joint press briefing by her Ministry and Board of Internal Revenue on the three days sit at home by the Coalition of Private Schools Union.
Amaka Okoye reports Professor Omenugha as saying that the proprietors of private schools in the state have had it so good as Anambra state remains the only state in the federation that has supported private schools with money, school buses, computers and numerous others to ensure that students have a grounded education.
She disclosed that private school owners saw their services as charity and social work but make profits that are supposed to be for the development of the school, frowning that all the funds generated by them were not use for the purposes they were meant for.
She noted that for some of them to go for strike without writing to government is act of disrespect, adding that eighty-five percent of them are in school while those who wanted to cause trouble are busy maligning the state government.
Professor Omenugha, who lamented that many of them run miracle centers without statutory records, data or register, unveiled that they have one thousand, nine hundred and one unapproved schools with twelve risking shutdown because of lack of education skills and none payment of levies to government.
On his part, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Anambra State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. David Nzekwu said any business operating in the state, must register with the state authority and any private school is to register with the Ministry of Education, Business Premises and Board of Internal Revenue.
He disclosed that they have addressed the multiple taxation issue raised by owners of private schools.
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