NIGERIA (Abia)-As part of efforts to ensure the attainment of credible education, the Abia Agency for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-formal Education has shut down 30 illegal remedial centres across the state.

This was made known on Tuesday in Umuahia, the state’s capital by the Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Joseph Anyanwu, who added that 20 of the unauthorized centres were discovered in Umuahia while the remaining 10 were in other parts of Abia State.

According to Anyanwu, the raid, which commenced since the beginning of February, would last till the end of the month.

He explained that no arrest was made, but that officials that carried out the exercise pasted a seal closing the buildings of the illegal operators.

“With the seal, we expect they should not reopen the centres until they clear with the agency,” he said.

 “If we discover that any of the closed centres was reopened without clearing with my office, the agency will be compelled to arrest both students and the operators found in such places,” he said.

Anyanwu advised parents and guardians against allowing their children patronise such centres.

It was gathered that majority of the students who register with the illegal remedial centres, popularly called ‘miracle centres’, usually drop out of their formal schools when they reach Senior Secondary School three level as such centres do arrange for obscured locations where the students write the West Africa Certificate Examination and National Examination Council.