hmmmm..........It is a very bad sight in a community that has 6 oil wells located
within it and could not afford to have chairs for the pupils in the only
primary school there. The pupils take lessons on a bare floor in a
primary school in Delta State.
The photographs of
the school were were taken on Wednesday, January 17, and it made a lot
of terrible exposures about the situation of pupils of Otoro Primary
School in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State who sit on
bare floor while learning.
The host community, Orhoakpor community is believed to be hosting six oil wells.
The
infrastructures in the school are extremely poor as the roofs of the
building are almost blown off, which exposes the pupils to dangers and
harsh weather. And for the fact that there are no benches in the school,
the pupils have taken comfort in sitting on the bare floor to learn in
class.
The classrooms do not also have doors,
neither are there any staff room for the teachers and the head teacher. A
source within the community who wanted to remain anonymous appealed to
the Delta State Governor, Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa to come to the rescue of
the school with the provision of basic infrastructures and adequate
security for the school as the little equipment they have are also
carted away by criminals.
The
shown photographs expose the lapses of the government in the area of
education. Regardless of the poor presence of the Delta State Government
in the community, the presence of the Nigerian Petroleum Development
Company, NPDC, operating the six oil wells in the community is not felt
by the people, as there are no access roads to the school even as there
is no portable water supply.
At the same time, the only health centre in the community does not have the basic medical facilities.
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