Ausphine, an Abuja college in Kugbo Sunday countered a narrative entitled: ‘Mother and father stranded as Abuja college shuts down, seeks authorities motion’ by this medium.
In a press assertion by Mrs J.E Omokhuale titled; the ‘Actual Reality’, the varsity administration stated the story of the closure was delivered to public area by Barr. Titus Terfa Agundu, the chairman of the PTA, who usually spearhead resistance to high school charges enhance.
She stated Agundu intentionally withheld info concerning the build-up to the closure, distorted info, and fabricated AI-enabled lies to deceive the general public and win unwarranted sympathy.
As a proof, the process for voluntary closure of personal colleges, she added, included notification, pupil welfare, workers compensation and asset disposal, which she stated Agundu claimed are contained in Tips from the Ministry of Schooling and the Nationwide Minimal Requirements and Institution of Establishments Act.
She lamented that the reporter didn’t name their lawyer to listen to their very own aspect of the story and went forward to hold out his threat of circulating the unverified story.
The rejoinder reads additional: “Voluntary shut down of Ausphine College in Kugbo, Abuja, in December 2024, was the end result of a course of and collection of occasions that formally began on July 26, 2024 when the Proprietors convened a PTA assembly to announce their intention to shut down the varsity.
“Subsequently, different conferences have been held to debate choices that later proved unviable to stop the closure, which was ultimately carried out with out violating the Tips issued by the Division of High quality Assurance, Schooling Secretariat, FCT and with unusual respect and regard for the pupils, mother and father and workers of the varsity. Other than the conferences the place the motion was mentioned, the administration of the varsity disseminated data to the mother and father, particularly those that have been absent on the conferences, by way of the College’s WhatsApp platform, whereby a lot of the causes for the choice have been once more offered.
“Most significantly, the proprietors’ promise, which was motivated by their deep empathy with mother and father, to offer {financial} help to folks to smoothen their transition to different colleges, and request for folks’ {bank} particulars, have been additionally offered within the WhatsApp messages.”