Edo 2020: Angry Edo teachers write Obaseki strongly-worded-letter

The crisis rocking the Edo educational sector continues as teachers in the State agitate for improved educational fascilities and welfare package.

In a letter to the governor on Wednesday, the teacher lamented government insensitivity to the development of education in the State.

Read the strongly worded letter below.

His Excellency,

Godwin Obaseki

Dear Sir,

For the sake of history, for the sake of Edolites, for the sake of humanity, I write you this open letter from the inner depth of my heart.

Different professional bodies and individuals have written you open letters stating the current mess on all facet we find ourselves in Edo State yet you haven’t responded (and, more importantly, neither has your Investigative Committee).

Well, this is an open letter on behalf of teachers under the employ of the Edo State Government, sir we are waiting for your at the polls.

Dilapidated schools across Edo

We have unequivocally decided to pay you back in the same coin which you paid us with.

Recall your excellency your initiative which you launched and erroneously informed the populace that 75 % of our schools now deploy digital teaching tools under the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (Edo-BEST) programme?

Sir, we were enthusiastic when you flagged this initiative off but sir between you and every single Edo citizen… you know that is a big fallacy.

We do not even have functional schools any more not to talk of bogus claims of deploying digital technology in teaching our students.

Our schools are dilapidated and falling apart with leaking roofs yet you claim that our schools enjoy the best of technology.

Your excellency, you decided to employ over a thousand aides for the purpose of your reelection and have decided to neglect we the teachers who provide the power of education to our today’s youth thereby creating the possibility of a better future.

Your excellency, you abandoned our welfare and have refused to employ more teachers after your retired our hardworking teachers under trumped-up excuses.

The monumental scam going on in SUBEB is not what we are sweeping under the carpet, as we speak concerted efforts are ongoing to petition the Joan Oviawe board fraught with multiple fraud and irregularities.

We must ensure her financial crimes are meted with the required justice it deserves.

lastly, your divide and SCATTER tactics towards your political family has clearly shown in the way you politicized the NUT.

Your penchant for courting only a few to the detriment of the larger masses would be your undoing.

Inadequate funding, poor and inadequate infrastructure, poor policy implementation, frequent closure of schools, lack of adequate qualified teachers, examination malpractices and corruption are the present bane of our educational system in Edo State yet your went to Abuja to PURCHASE an NUT award and celebrated it with a ceremony at Eagle Square that only reminds us of an Independence Day PARADE where huge budget is spent on.

We have decided to return you back from wherever you came from with our votes.

Like earlier stated let this serve as history that Edo teachers say no to your retrogressive policies.

Yours Sincerely.

Suleiman Abdul

Akoko Edo