Community in Delta urges government to save schools

Ejiro Damijo, the chairman of the education committee for the Aladja Community Council in Delta State’s Udu Local Government Area, has bemoaned the lack of basic amenities at Ewvirhe Primary School and Aladja Grammar School.

The absence of a surrounding fence around the Grammar School makes it challenging to maintain control over the children, according to Damijo in a conversation with OBASANJO NEWS24.

Because there is no gate to checkmate them, he claimed, “students easily move around and even go home without returning.”

He made the point that even teachers occasionally neglect their duties and carry on business in the classrooms, all the while hoodlums break into the school and damage its property.

He claims that one of the biggest issues in the neighbourhood is how to construct a fence around Aladja Grammar School.

Damijo urged Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori to use his position to address the problems affecting the two schools, reiterating the grievances of the headmistress and principal of the respective institutions over a lack of desks and library space.

In his words, “The community calls on Gov. Oborevwori, who is an old student of Aladja Grammar School, to see that the fence is done shortly to curb truancy by the students who come late to school and leave before closing.”

“If there is a fence, it will aid the vigilantes (who assist in upholding law and order in the school) in checking the excesses of the students and also stop the incursion of the community members into the school during and after school hours,” he continued. People can easily enter the school to steal because there is no outer fence.