It was a drama of sorts at the verification of
certificates of Primary School teachers in Edo
State yesterday as a teacher at Asologun
Primary School, Ikpoba Okha Local
Government Area, Benin City, Mrs Augusta
Odemwinge could not read a sworn affidavit
she tendered as part of her credentials.
Governor Adams Oshiomhole who paid an
unscheduled visit to the State Staff Training
Centre venue of the exercise was appalled
that a teacher could not read, saying “if you
can’t read, what do you teach the pupils, what
do you write on the board?”
Chairman of the state Nigeria Union of
Teachers, Comrade Patrick Ikosimi who was
also at the screening to monitor the exercise
said the woman’s failure was “an
embarrassment”.
On arrival at the centre, the governor took
time to peruse some of the teacher’s
credentials and documents presented.
When Mrs. Odenwingie took her turn for the
exercise, the Governor who listened to her
defence asked her to read the affidavit she
presented, however, she was stuttering and
read the affidavit as if a kindergarten were
learning to read, to the consternation of
everybody around.
Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers
NUT, Comrade Ikosimi who described
described Mrs Odemwingie failure as an
embarrassment said the union was in tune
with the state government on the need to
sanitise the school system.
He said: “We are committed to partnering
with the government to reposition Education
in the state. What this teacher has just
displayed is a show of shame, it shows the
decadence in the education sector.
“As the chairman of NUT, I have written to the
governor that we are in total support of what
he is doing. He should properly involve the
NUT so that together we can fish out the
culprits who are not viable

Funny

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Funny

Nt funny. Its quite shameful that a primary school teacher cannot read, what does she teach her pupils?

It has finished.. ori ti gbe

The woman graduated from a night school, so she should be given the chance to read same paper at night. Oshobaba, you are wrong.