By Alltimepost.com
Out-going Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has assured that the state government will employ more teachers this week, before the end of his administration to ensure quality education in the state public schools.
Oshiomhole gave the assurance, while speaking during an interactive session with female students of different schools at the Second Edo State Festival of the Girl Child, organized by “We Care Trust Foundation,” a pet project of the Governor’s wife, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, in Benin City last Friday.
“My takeaway from this meeting is that the Commissioner for Education, before he retires next week, must between now and Tuesday give me a list of mathematics teachers, English Language, English Literature, Geography, science teachers and arts teachers.”
He said an interview had already been conducted into the various positions and that successful candidates would be posted to the various schools next week before the end of his tenure.
“You will be able to say, when you met with the Governor, you told him that you needed mathematics teacher, five days later a mathematics teacher has resumed in your school, and physics teacher, etcetera.”
Governor Oshiomhole noted that the students were happy with the buildings, the equipment in many of the schools and that their laboratory equipment would need replacement with modern ones, “and where you don’t have, they will be provided.”
“I am not sure how long it takes to order them and to have them delivered because we don’t have them right in any warehouse now. So, we won’t be able to deliver those before the end of my tenure,” assuring that his successor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki will ensure that the promise is fulfilled.
He also promised functional and well equipped libraries for the schools.
He noted the concern of students of Emotan College whom, he said want their school to look like the remodeled Idia College and even be finer, assuring that Emotan College would be remodeled “so that it will be just as beautiful as Idia College with a college hall and a laboratory.”
“My successor will ensure that the other schools that are under construction are completed. We still have some blocks that have not been finished. Those will be completed, and the ones that we haven’t yet started, the next governor will continue from where I am going to stop.
“You know that government, as they say, is a continuum. One governor and one government cannot finish everything. But if the next governor does as much as we have done, and I know that the next governor will do even more than what we have done, then all the schools in Edo State will begin to look like Imaguero College, Idia College and New Era College,” Oshiomhole said.
Among the students who spoke and commended Governor Oshiomhole for his infrastructural development of the State was Miss Constance Iratobe, a student of Emotan College.
She expressed appreciation over the governor’s performance in Edo State.
The Edo State Festival of the girl child is a gender-focused initiative for mobilizing women and the girl child to take a positive active interest in affirmative action through promoting female folks, empowerment and gender equality in the society.
This initiative seeks to create mass awareness among the female folks at all levels of their human rights and obligations as active citizens of Nigeria and Edo State in particular.
