Some Rivers State government owned primary and secondary schools in some local government areas of the state, are in a shameful, sad and pathetic state.
One of such schools in dire need of government urgent intervention is Community Secondary School Kaani (CSS Kaani), the only state government owned school in Khana Local Government Area of the state.
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Students of the school share most of their classrooms with snakes, as grasses and trees have taken over the classrooms.
The laboratory where students in senior secondary school, mostly those preparing for WAEC are expected to hold their practical, is without roof, doors nor windows, and giant grasses has overtaken the entire space.
Kaani Secondary School does not have a toilet, but has a very deep soak-away pit that is not properly covered, on the path leading to staff room and the assembly ground.
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Few days ago, our correspondent was at Ibaa Community in Emohua Local Government Area of the state and visited the Ibaa community school three.
There is only one building standing with roof and six classrooms. It has no door, window, and less than ten desks in the entire classrooms.
The floor of the classrooms are very rough and the entire environment very horrible. The other builders are in their very worse abandoned state, not roofed and overtake by grasses and big tress.
Speaking in an interview, Mrs. Uchechi Orji, lamented that there are “no chair, no nothing, nothing dey for this school, this environment sef don make our children don run finish, them no dey come here because nothing dey.
“We want government to look after this school, nothing dey, nothing, nothing, so make una help us to tell government say for this Ibaa no school, make them come help us. Our children no dey learn anything because of how the school dey, wey them come today, tomorrow them no go come because them dey sit don for ground; you see any chair there? So, our people, we dey suffer well, well because of this school.
“Make una help us tell government make them come help Ibaa School Three, we don die, abeg, make them come help us.”
When asked if there were other government schools in Ibaa, she said, “school one dey, school one dey okay. School two dey okay but eh far, this one dey close well, well. This school, I know know whether na bribe, bribe dey kill this school, so make una help us tell government.
“We don die, we dey cry, make them come help us. Any help wey una go help make this school three stand. Before I dey hear about this school three, before I come marry here, but when I come here, I carry my children to this school, nothing, nothing. Teachers them dey come oo but because of the environment we don carry our pikin commot go private school.
“Make una help us, when them do am well now, we go come back here because the school is better.”
Meanwhile, an employee of the state ministry of education, told our reporter that preparation is in top gear to rehabilitate dilapidated state-government-owned schools.
