The Commissioner disclosed this while addressing staff of the Ministry when he assumed office on Friday, pointing out that the damage inflicted to the education sector in the State had become so worrisome and challenging.
The commissioner lamented that the three components of education, comprising Basic, Secondary and Tertiary levels have all suffered serious neglect. According to him, the secondary education sub-sector is also in a pitiful condition than the basic education system. He further stated that the tertiary education sub-sector is in a straightjacket with empty laboratories, libraries, workshops, inadequate infrastructural facilities, equipment and other learning materials, stressing that they do not answer their names as citadels of learning, but have rather become glorified secondary schools.