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I’m not so happy seeing pretenders on the gubernatorial seat. I won’t ever suffer fools gladly.
I can still remember vividly the promises of Mr Ibikunle Amosun on May 29, 2011. According to him, all pregnant women could be assured that their children would be treated like kings because he was going to adopt them.
In his words, the children had become Amosun’s children.
In terms of education, he declared free education. He also promised better health services.
He never needed to make all the promises. He had already been elected anyway.
As at the end of last year (2017) only a few schools had functional libraries. There were also schools where pupils were forced to turn sheds into classrooms.
Government schools normally had an average of eighty pupils per class. Books were not supplied to pupils. Where they were, the pupils were not allowed to take them home.
Even the uneducated would know that only an unserious government will not allow pupils to go home.with books in a supposedly free education system.
What’s going on now right in the state capital is even a travesty of the so called free education. I have learnt that in a former Catholic school in Olomore, which had been taken over by government, the poor pupils are frequently made to regret their parents’ poverty.
They are beaten for failure to pay Parents and Teachers’ Association fees, school fence fees, and so on. After these children are beaten, they are marched to the field to cut grass while others are in class. Some of them do get welts on their backs as a result of the beatings.
So, what happens if they finally pay the fees? Will they be ‘unbeaten’?
I believe the act is not only inhumane but it is also a thing that does not belong to this age where education should be pupil centered.
In any case, it could breed truancy and criminality amongst pupils.
Well, we the people are sleeping on the beds which we laid. But then, let’s keep the innocent children out of our poverty of choice as far as governmental positions are concerned!!!
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