A 60-year-old man, Mr. Adalabu Seribor, who is
a Junior Secondary School II (JSS II) student at
Izon College, Bomadi-Overside in Bomadi Local
Government Area of Delta State, is currently the
talk of the town.

Seribor, a wheelbarrow pusher popularly called
Oyibo in the community, disclosed how he took
the decision to go to school at old age, a
development that had kept many people
wondering what he wanted to achieve in school
at such an age.

Speaking with Southern City News, Seribor said,
“I am sixty years now and I decided to go to
school at this age because I perpetually feel the
pain of being an illiterate in this modern world
where everything has to do with English and
education.

“My mother died during child birth when I was a
little boy while my father was a hunter. I was
bred by a grandmother after the death of my
mother and later taken to a step-mother when
my father remarried.

“I went through pains and hardship at my tender
age to adulthood. It would interest you to know
that I was so tender at the time my mother died
that I was crying for food while she lay dead.
“I went through struggles all through my life
history. I had the opportunity to go to school at
my young age, when a relative who was a
magistrate at Ekeremor in Bayelsa State took
me to his house.

“But because of early morning beatings due to
my failure to greet him when rising from bed, I
went back to my father. I had no opportunity to
go to school since then, and continued in hard
labour to survive in life, which I am still doing.”

Narrating further how he took the decision to
attend school at his current age, he said, “I
realized that without education, one cannot do
well in this present society. I also do not want a
situation whereby someone else would interpret
or write for me if eventually I am chosen to hold
an office in my community.

“I make a living by pushing wheelbarrow. After
school hours, I go back home to look for work to
do, which I have been doing for a living. I pay
my school fees from there. I am determined to
complete my education because of the pains in
my heart.

“I see that one cannot do well without education
in this society. I do various menial jobs for a
living. I pack dirt from gutters; I pack sand,
clear grasses in people’s compounds and pack
soak-away faeces in the dead of the night. I am
a JSS II student and by the grace of God, I will
finish from this school.”

Seribor said he would proceed to Teachers’
Training College at the end of his secondary
education in order to achieve his dream of
becoming a teacher.

“I want to teach and I advised young boys and
girls wasting their time and years roaming the
streets
to go to school. If I can go to school, then why
are young people wasting themselves,” he
queried.

His class teacher, Mr. Edsemi Anesah,
described Seribor as a committed and
hardworking student.

“My encouragement to him is that he should
hold onto his determination. He is the oldest
student in the school and I advise young people
out there to emulate him,” Anesah added.




source:: http://www.punchng.com/60-year-old-wheelbarrow-pusher-begins-secondary-education-in-delta/

Learning continues

Hopefully he will get a degree at 80... not bad!

I like his courage and there are some young chaps outhere who are so useless.....

kudos to paparazi atleast he wants to be educated and have a good certificate, and not like one old man that used nepa bill to deceive us.