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A query letter written by a Nigerian Local Government authority, has been shared and reposted on several social media platforms because of its glaring spelling errors and poor grammatical structure.

Several users on the X social media platform (formerly known as Twitter) have wondered how the letter was able to pass through several official hands without anyone picking up on any of its flaws.

QUARRY LETTER

I am been directed to inform you to reply in your own handwriting within 24 hours on receipt. This quarry as stated below.

1. Absent duty without permission


2. Doing curse without permission with HOD & Local Government Authority.


3. Not coming for work regularly.


4. Lateness on duty and not ready to learn.


5. She always give inshort to the head and (HOD).


6. Always fighting with officer in-charge.


7. The job I am doing for mercy not my real work.


8. Very rudeness to everybody.


9. No repent to HOD, Biltering the table HOD Health.


10. Not ready to work, you manage to give injection, not my work.


11. Not comply with W H O.



*2 You are to complain this Quarry at chairman officer.

3. Thanks.



ABIYE SUNDAY
FOR: EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
OKE-ERO LOCAL GOVERNMENT,
ILOFA.

Quarry letter.

Seem they break large rocks into smaller rocks at the LGA.

Just imagine what someone wrote. This is the effect of recruiting personnel based on connection not by competence.

If you like, no answer your quarry. You go speak English tire for bus park and newspaper vendor side.
Get this, if your boss knew everything you knew, he'd be a worker just like you. Na so this life be.

As i see LGA, I ain't surprised one bit. I have been to my LGA Secretariat some years ago to get Letter of administration. Omo, no body dey there except the gate man, him tell me say, everybody go farm.

Up to date I still dey weak if I recall that matter.

Lol worst part na one business center Dem go waka go draft the letter....



Mak Dem type am in dere language don du...

But you will still have to answer after judging all the grammar

The staff who composed the quarry letter is a product of recruitment by connection.😂😂😂

They would have written it in yoruba. English is a borrowed language

How many more characters needed

90% of people from that region are illiterates, so I am not surprised 😒😒

And yet, they're the most educated.. Chocho media just dey expose them everyday

The same people who are sophisticated.

I am from the SS, but I strongly believe that the most educated people in this country are from the SE, followed by the SS. I say this because I have lived and worked in many states in the four major regions of the country.

You understand the quarry, abi you no understand?

This one is even better than Monday okpebolo. The kind Dundee wey we get for leadership position ehn.

Another day to remind all "that school no be scam". My 6 year old son will just laugh at this in amazement. This jargons was probably written by the HOD, health.

I don't believe this will pass through any organisation. Someone just composed this to trend online

The choice of language for the query may be suboptimal, but it's essential to recognize that industry-relevant skills hold greater value than merely possessing proficiency in English. In order to ensure clarity and effective communication, it would have been more appropriate for the writer to compose the query in Yoruba, a language that both parties likely understand and use comfortably.

Peace!

You refused to break enough rocks and stones. Therefore you must get a quarry letter

TruthHurts1:
A query letter written by a Nigerian Local Government authority, has been shared and reposted on several social media platforms because of its glaring spelling errors and poor grammatical structure.

Several users on the X social media platform (formerly known as Twitter) have wondered how the letter was able to pass through several official hands without anyone picking up on any of its flaws.

These are the kind of people holding public offices. I can bet you most of your government officials are illiterate like this.

Shame and very sad

this one na quarrel letter o

HOD weytin dey sup for LGA

as i dey read d letter i de think say na one mallam write am

Mariangeles:
You understand the quarry, abi you no understand?

I understandard ma




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wizelink:
Just imagine what someone wrote. This is the effect of recruiting personnel based on connection not by competence.

Of course! Nepo and Ima Mmadu on the beat. Education in Nigeria is gone to the dogs

This has been debunked as fake news by the LG involved.

https://theinformant247.com/oke-ero-lg-debunks-viral-query-letter-calls-it-fake/

Oke Ero LG debunks viral query letter, calls it fake
By
The Informant247
September 22, 2025
…says no staff was slapped or humiliated

…launches investigation into alleged assault

The Oke Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State has dismissed reports that it issued a query letter to one of its staff, describing the claim as false and misleading.

In a statement signed by the Secretary of the Council, Hon. Femi Arekujaye, the local government distanced itself from a document circulating in the public domain, purportedly issued to a staff member, Nurse Rufus Favour Mojisola, on behalf of the Executive Chairman, Hon. James Abiodun Fadipe.

According to the Council, the alleged query letter bore no reference number, date, or official stamp, and contained “vocabulary that could only be linked to an uneducated individual who hardly passed through a primary school.”

The statement stressed that no such query originated from the council.
“The public is advised to disregard the alleged query and unfounded claims by the nursing sister in question. Nobody forced her to kneel down, nor did anyone slap her,” the statement read.

Funny enough, I see this kind of writing by some of us here on Nairaland too
I can name names if una push me

I really don't believe any human being could have written this.

Sophisticated people. Ñnnnnnnnnnnnn hhhhhhhh hhhhhhh

Only heaven knows how the reply looked like!

But OP, u 4 no include information about the writer and location.