The Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board has distributed 20 operational vehicles to monitoring and evaluation officers across the 16 Local Government Education Authorities in the state to improve school supervision and quality assurance.
Ekiti SUBEB Chairman, Prof. Femi Akinwumi, said the initiative was a strategic investment in strengthening the monitoring, supervision and quality assurance of public primary schools across the state.
Akinwumi, who spoke in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday during the distribution, said, “The vehicles will enhance school supervision, data collection and timely reporting by monitoring and evaluation officers,” adding that the exercise was evidence of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s commitment to providing the mobility required to improve security and education delivery.
He said, “The improved mobility will enable monitoring and evaluation officers to reach hard-to-access schools, monitor compliance with established standards and provide timely data for effective policy formulation.”
The SUBEB boss urged the beneficiaries to use the vehicles judiciously and maintain them properly to ensure their durability and effective utilisation.
The Permanent Secretary in the Board, Michael Omolayo, described the procurement and distribution of the vehicles as a demonstration of the commitment of the Oyebanji administration and SUBEB management to repositioning basic education for greater efficiency and improved outcomes.
Omolayo said, “Effective monitoring and evaluation remain central to quality assurance in the basic education sub-sector.”
He noted that inadequate logistics could hamper effective supervision, adding that the Board had provided field officers with the necessary operational tools to discharge their responsibilities effectively across public primary schools in the state.
