MINISTER of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, has stated that the reports of all the Presidential Visitation Panels set up for federal polytechnics and colleges of education would be diligently implemented.
Wike spoke at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State, during a monitoring visit to the institution.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan was particularly interested in the reports of visitation panels to the institutions because they would bring to the fore challenges being faced by the schools and steps the Federal Government would need to take to correct them.
The minister said: "The reports of the Presidential Visitation Panels currently at work in all federal colleges of education and polytechnics will be implemented. They would not be kept on the shelves to gather dust.
"However, members of these panels must bear in mind that they are not on a witch-hunting mission.
"All reports of the visitation panels should be comprehensive, capturing all details that would assist the Federal Government to move these schools forward. Members of these panels must bear in mind that this is their historic opportunity to contribute to the revival of education in Nigeria".
Wike challenged the management of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku, to develop a teaching training model that would create a crop of vocational and technical teachers, who would help drive the Federal Government's education policy.
In a remark during the visit, Chairman of the Presidential Visitation Panel of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Omoku, Mohammed Abdu, said the panel had done 80 per cent of its job.
He said the panel was grateful to members of the community for their cooperation by tendering memoranda and making oral submissions.
Also, Provost of the college, Nkasiobu Oguzor, assured the minister that the institution would work towards achieving its mandate of training quality vocational and technical teachers for basic education.
The Guardian