By Emmanuel Enebeli
ASABA/Nigeria: The Delta State Government had again restate its desire to improve the quality of education in the state, and said such decision remains unshaken, as no distraction will cause the state government to change its plans on improving the education sector in the state.
Speaking through the Chief Press Secretary to the Delta State governor, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, the government stated that the recent incident that happened in one of the state schools should not be used to down play the efforts the government had put in improving the quality of schools within the past six months.
“In the last forty six months, the administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has paid special attention to the improvement of education in Delta state, especially in the upgrade of infrastructure and retraining of Teachers and Instructors.”
“Since the last one week when the story of our dear little Success broke and went viral, we have watched and read divergent views on the subject matter.”
“While we appreciate those who have genuinely expressed concern on the issue and assure such persons of our determination to further strengthen our efforts in repositioning our school system in Delta, we make bold to say that we will not be distracted by those who wish to take advantage of the situation to advance their personal gains.”
It is important to restate that Delta State Government runs free education at both primary and secondary school levels in all public schools in the state and therefore any staff of government who engage in acts that undermines the good intentions of government cannot be spared of appropriate sanctions.”
While we acknowledge that we are yet to fix all the schools, it is pertinent to state that the Okowa led administration since assumption of office has built and reconstructed over 4,000 classroom blocks and provided furniture, learning and instructional materials to public schools in the state with a view to making them conducive and competitive with the private schools.”
The Government has equally trained and retrained teachers in the employees of the State Government with a view to making them adapt to modern teaching techniques hence the establishment of an ultra modern Teachers Training Institute at Owa-Oyibu Ika North East Local Government Area of Delta State.”
