{"id":10307,"date":"2020-07-22T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=10307"},"modified":"2020-07-22T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T18:25:53","slug":"akwa-ibom-state-private-school-proprietors-protest-guidelines-for-reopening-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/22\/akwa-ibom-state-private-school-proprietors-protest-guidelines-for-reopening-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Akwa Ibom State: Private School Proprietors Protest Guidelines for Reopening Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Proprietors of private schools in Akwa Ibom State have kicked against the guidelines given by the state government for reopening of schools in the state over COVID-19.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chairman, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Akwa Ibom State Chapter, Mr. Udofia Davies in an interview with our correspondent said the conditions set by the state government were tough and difficult to comply with.
According to him, schools in the state were expected to provide temperature testing machines, preparation of isolation centers, fumigation of school premises, and provision of hand sanitizers among others conditions before opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He argued that schools in the state were closed in the month of March on the eve of the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic and wondered who contaminated the school compounds before it could be fumigated for reopening.
\u201cWe have been at home for four months now unlike the public schools that whether you go to work or not the government pays them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have not gotten money for four months now and it becomes very difficult for most of the teachers. And we are not afraid to say that by the time we resume we would have lost some of our best hands in private schools,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking with our correspondent, Udofia expressed fear that most of the private schools cannot reopen their schools as the conditions require money to put certain things in place as demanded by the government.
\u201cWith what is happening now, we are afraid whether it would be possible for most private schools to reopen. This is because we need to put a lot of things in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we were in a stakeholders meeting with the Commissioner for Education, we were asked to do so many things. One of those was to get temperature testing machines at the entrance of the schools before resumption. Where do we have money to buy these things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAgain we were asked to fumigate our schools, where is the money? Remember we have closed for four months now.\u201d
He condemned government\u2019s attitude over taxation of private schools and called on Governor Udom Emmanuel to extend the COVID-19 tax holiday to private schools in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now private schools are multiply taxed. We pay for renewal of operational licences yearly, private polytechnics and universities don\u2019t renew their license annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut for private nursery, primary and secondary schools, we renew every year. We pay to Ministry of Education, Internal Revenue Service, Sanitation Agency, PAYEE, Ministry of Environment, Local government and even stickers for our buses, please tell Governor Udom Emmanuel to help us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: This Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proprietors of private schools in Akwa Ibom State have kicked against the guidelines given by the state government for reopening of schools in the state over COVID-19. The Chairman, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Akwa Ibom State Chapter, Mr. Udofia Davies in an interview with our correspondent said the conditions set by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/NAPPS-Logo.jpg?fit=465%2C419&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}