Edo not against mission schools -Oshiomohole

EDO State governor,  Adams Oshiomhole, has said the state government is not against the return of mission schools to their original owners, but said some issues must be resolved before it is done.
The governor disclosed this on Thursday during the presentation of the laurels won by Lumen Kristi International High School, Uromi, for emerging winner in the National High School Quiz championship, and for being the school with the best West Africa Examination Certificate (WAEC) result in the country.
According to him, “I am not necessarily hostile to the return of schools to missions, there is room for that, but there are a couple of issues that need to be addressed, one of which is the entry barrier,  which must not debar children of the poor on the account of their background. If this and other issues are cleared, then we can look at it.”
The governor congratulated the principal, parents, staff and students of the school for the achievement, which he noted was a move to return Edo State to excellence and a reminder that other students could do better.
He said the competition had been able to inculcate in the children that they had to work hard to achieve success on the basis of merit and he urged them to see the laurels as an incentive to work harder.
“What the National Quiz competition organisers are doing and the students have demonstrated is that Nigeria must be merit-driven. You have won based on merit and not on sentimentsm,” the governor said.