OPEN LETTER TO OYO STATE GOVERNOR
Dear Governor,
Engr. Seyi Makinde of Oyo state.
Your Excellency sir, I feel great and honoured to pen down this letter to you sir, on behalf of children living with physical, emotional and cognitive disabilities across Oyo state.
I am writing this letter to you as a concern patriot who wishes your administration well and the future of the people with disabilities in Oyo state and the world at large.
I have indeed seen your unrelentless love for education by building the life of needy students through provision of textbooks and compounded series for all subjects to make WAEC and NECO examination easy for the students that are preparing for forthcoming Senior School Certificate Examinations. Your gesture also extended to renovation and reconstruction of new schools in the nooks and crannies of Oyo state.
Your Excellency sir, I am one of the pacesetter youth who admire your leadership skills and the well wishes you have for this state. Lest I forget, thank you sir for providing new fire service for oyo town.
Furthermore, I am highly humbled to write this and I respectfully request you read this letter with passion, empathy and kindly let it bring light to darkness to the life of disabled children in oyo state.
Well, as a matter of fact, you have done wonderfully well by attempting to recruit new teachers to fill vacant positions in both primary and secondary schools but your excellency I need to call your attention to a very importance issue before the recruitment of teachers will begin which I believe the Ministry of Education is not aware of.
We have few special schools in Oyo State and some of the teachers in those schools were posted there without having any background knowledge, training and strategies on how to make studies effective for the pupils or students with cognitive learning disabilities.
I implore your Excellency to kindly recruit specially trained educators to fill this gap in the special schools across Oyo State. They are the only people who can effectively train disable students.
I mentioned this because when the recruitment for teacher is starts, teachers will be posted to schools without having special consideration for students living with cognitive disabilities whom I believe need special educators.
These children love learning but they lack access to competent teachers that can drive them to achieve quality education as we also want it for them.
The said special teachers have special instructional materials, strategies and best assessment measurement that will support and enhance their learning potentials as we all know that special children require unique specially trained teachers to achieve their potentials beyond their limitations. Thankfully, University of Ilorin, Oyo (Special) College of Education and University of Ibadan have churned out social work graduates who can meaningful fill this vacuum.
Emphatically, many parents of people with disabilities want the best education for their children but because of lack of resources; they can not send them to private schools.
Your excellency, the life of these children is in our hands and their future needs to be considered too, if we fail to do the needful things now, they may later cause disorderliness in the society by turning street urchins or becoming beggars.
More so, I am still looking forward to you to towards renovating heir schools and make it more attractive for them. These will also serve as an extrinsic motivation to build more love for learning and make school a fun place for them.
Once again congratulations as the Supreme Court has ruled in your favour against the decision of Court of Appeal which dismissed a petition by the opponent party. May you be able to leave the best legacies that successive generations of oyo state will remember you for.
Thanks and God bless!
Mustapha Yusuf Alao. You an reach me via aymustopha@gmail.com

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This is Nigeria not America.

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This is Nigeria not America.

Anything works in America supposed to work in Nigeria too.