We Want You Fit but Don’t Beat Your Teachers, MoE Makes Physical Education Compulsory at Secondary Schools

It’s exactly 14 days to the full reopening of schools in the country which is slated for 10th January 2022, the state Minister for Sports, Hon. Denis Hamson Obua revealed that Physical Education will be compulsory at lower secondary schools.

According to Obua, the government has included compulsory physical Education for lower secondary school students starting with the first term of the academic year 2022.

This, as the Ministry of Education and Sports, moves to promote sports talent development among schools going children.

“We believe that making physical education compulsory, we will be able to identify more talents and be able to develop them over time and these will be the stars that we will be having in future for commonwealth, Olympics an other games.” Said Hon. Denis Hamson Obua.

State Minister for sports, Denis Hamson Obua told NTV, a local television station that the development comes at the time when the Department of Physical Education has embarked on reviewing the 1964 National Sports Policy in bid to harmonise the law with the new trends of sports development.

“Also going forward, we have the issue of the review of the sports Policy, we are at the level of consultation, the draft policy is out, when all these processes are done, we shall be coming out with a full policy about sports sector. “

Before, physical education has been at the elementary and nursery level but wasn’t so active of recent because many schools especially in urban centres don’t have enough space for sports activities.

Now it remains in the hands of schools whether they will immediately adapt even in this time where they are coming from two years lockdown.