Secondary school principals who engage in collecting illegal levies in Cross River State have been removed while others have been suspended and transferred.
“If I had my way, I would make education free in the state. I did it as a local government chairman,” he said, adding that 1,000 teachers were being employed for public schools in the state.
Earlier, the Commissioner for Rural Transformation, Edem Okokon, said some rural roads had been fixed, while several solar-powered boreholes had been sunk in Obudu, Obanliku, Bekwarra, and Yala to ameliorate the acute potable water shortage suffered by the people in areas. He decried the destruction of the housing estate in Bakassi during the #EndSARS protest in 2020 which had not been rehabilitated.The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Eric Anderson, appealed to the Federal Government to release the N45bn approved for the state as compensation for individuals whose properties were destroyed during the #EndSARS protest.All rights reserved.
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