Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Musa Bello, on Friday directed the Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) and the FCT Task Team on Environment to, as a matter of urgency, get rid of herdsmen still grazing in the Federal Capital city.

He described the act of grazing in the city centre as a “bizarre situation” and directed the two bodies to find a way of dealing with the situation.

The minister equally directed them to stop hawkers using pedestrian bridges in the territory for their commercial activities.

The directives came as the minister ordered any principal of government schools in Abuja who fails to achieve 50 percent success in the 2017 WASSC and NECO exams should honourably resign or risk being sacked.


Speaking at a meeting with school principals in the territory, the minister said that the 30 percent success recorded in the 2016 WAEC and NECO in FCT schools was no longer acceptable.

Bello, who was represented at the meeting by the FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye insisted that students must achieve at least 50 percent in the next exams or principals of affected schools be penalized.

The minister warned that the FCT Administration will no longer accept excuses of poor infrastructure or inadequate teachers being given as reasons for the poor performance, insisting that school principals must do everything possible to ensure that the situation changed.

He said that it was unthinkable that the FCT, with the largest concentration of elites and which should be setting the pace for other states in terms of academic performance, was churning  out mere 30 percent success in very critical examinations as WAEC and NECO.


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