BENIN CITY — IT was drama, Tuesday, at the venue of the
verification of certificates of primary school teachers in Edo
State, as a teacher in Asologun Primary School, Ikpoba Okha
Local Government Area of the state, Mrs. Augusta
Odemwinge could not read a sworn affidavit she purportedly
tendered as part of her credentials.
The state governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, who paid an
unscheduled visit to the state Staff Training Centre, venue of
the exercise, said “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, Mr. Patrick
Ikosimi, who was also at the screening to monitor the
exercise, said that 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 during the exercise, the
governor, who listened to her defence, asked her to read the
affidavit she presented, but she stuttered, to the consternation
of everybody around.
Ikosimi, who described Mrs. Odemwingie’s failure to read a
document she presented 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 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 had 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 as far as the system is
concerned,” he said.


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We have many of them.
Some can even speak, but to write down na wahala.
Some can even read, but write.

It could be that she was intimidated by the presence of the governor!

whew! so so funny. and d woman don old o. i wonda wat she wuld av bin teaching 2 d poor students. what a pity.

henryvirus: whew! so so funny. and d woman don old o. i wonda wat she wuld av bin teaching 2 d poor students. what a pity.

A country where the end justifies the means; no teaching is done but year in year out you see students passing their internal examinations in flying colors until they meet WAEC,NECO,JAMB and post utme.