LEA Islamiyya school emerges winner of peer mediation competition in FCT
By Sadiq Abubakar, Abuja.
The Local Education Authority (LEA) Islamiyya primary school in Kwali area council, Abuja, has emerged the overall winner during the third edition of the peer mediation and peace building competition organized for the primary schools category in the FCT.
Our correspondent learnt that, the founder and principal partner of Center for Peer Mediation And Peacebuilding, Three C’s Mets Mediators, Mr Chijioke Nnana, has trained 184 primary school pupils from three area councils of Gwagwalada, Kwali, Kuje and AMAC of the Federal Capital Territory in peer mediation.
The head teacher of LEA Islamiyya school in Kwali, Aishatu Yamta Bukar, while speaking when she led the participating pupils on a appreciation visit to the LEA secretary of Kwali, Mr Peter Leda in his office on Tuesday, said she decided to lead the pupils to come and appreciate the education secretary for his support, which she said led to victory of the school during the competition.
She informed the education secretary that the peer mediation was a way of setting disputes/conflicts among two people, which she said pupils of her school were able to display their talents and emerged as overall winner at the end of the competition.
She also appreciated the head of department for ethics and value of the LEA, Hajiya Rakiya Ayuba, for facilitating in ensuring her school participated to emerge first position in the competition, even as she said she dedicated the victory to the LEA secretary of the council, Peter Leda and head of department for ethics and value.
Responding, the Kwali LEA secretary, Peter Leda, while congratulating the pupils for their performance, said he was overwhelmed seeing the school emerged as overall winner of the peer mediation competition among primary schools in the FCT.
He said though, he was not surprised seeing LEA Islamiyya primary school emerging first position during the competition, saying Kwali area council has been the educational zone of the FCT.
“And I have always said long before the advent of FCT, Kwali as a district has the highest numbers of schools in the whole of the FCT. So for our children coming as the overall best at the third edition of the peer mediation competition is not a surprise thing to me as that has been our goals,” he said.
The LEA scribe, however, disclosed that the secretariat will soon set up a committee that will preside over annual award for best performing primary school head teachers and teachers in the council.
