The Kano State authorities has directed the rapid closure of two non-public colleges, Ibn-Mashuud Secondary College and Matasha Non-public Secondary College, for working in dilapidated buildings within the state.
Moreover, the federal government has imposed a N10 million fantastic on Crescent Worldwide College, one other non-public secondary faculty, for alleged violation of extant legal guidelines.
Briefing journalists on Monday concerning the improvement, the Government Secretary of the Kano State Non-public and Voluntary Establishments Board, Alh. Baba Umar, acknowledged that the sanctions adopted acceptable authorized motion instituted by the board.
In line with Umar, Magistrates’ Courtroom 36 granted a movement ex parte instituted on August 22, 2024, in opposition to Ibn-Mashuud Secondary College and Matasha Non-public Secondary College for working in dilapidated buildings.
The court docket subsequently granted an order of interim injunction in favour of the board, directing the closure of the 2 colleges and proscribing them from working pending the listening to of the movement on discover.
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Relating to the N10 million fantastic, Umar stated Magistrates’ Courtroom 39 has summoned Crescent Worldwide College for deferring 10 per cent tax, which he acknowledged violated the board’s extant legal guidelines of 2014.
The board lately carried out an inspection, accompanied by chosen journalists, of the dilapidated buildings the place college students had been taking classes beneath near-collapse decking and in unhealthy environments. The 2 non-public colleges had been a part of the faulty buildings.
Umar reiterated his earlier place that the closure of colleges by the board is now not modern; therefore, the board is not going to hesitate to sue any erring non-public and voluntary colleges within the state.
“I can guarantee you that different non-public and voluntary colleges which can be working unlawfully with out finishing the validation train on the board will even face an analogous destiny.
“About 189 voluntary colleges lately collected the revalidation type and refused to return it as a result of they depend on some disgruntled people on the Ministry of Schooling who is not going to save them from the continued prosecution.
“I can’t deal with their case collectively; reasonably, I’ll take care of them individually by prosecuting them one after the opposite as a result of they got here right here individually, not as a physique,” he stated.
Baba Umar added that he has the governor’s approval to sanitise the non-public and voluntary colleges within the state, promising to not relent till the needful is completed.
