Snakes And Lizards don take over as Benue Govt abandons Primary Schools
Public primary schools for owukpa, a district for ogbadibo local goment area for benue state, are facing a slow and painful extinction.
dis institutions, once di proud nurseries for some for nigeria’s finest professionals, don become graveyards for learning.
wia laughter and recitations once echoed, shun now reigns. Wia dreams de nurtured, only ruins remain.
years for goment abandonment, rising insecurity, and policy reversals don reduced dis schools to rubble.
classrooms are deserted. Walls don crumbled. Roofs are gone. Blackboards gather dust, and di few remaining desks rot under open skies.
pupils don vanished, teachers don disappeared—and reptiles don taken dia place.
a recent tour for di schools by idoma television revealed a grim reality.
lgea primary school ikwo na now a relic for di past. Founded for di early 1970s, for di moment, it na nothing but a skeletal structure.
no bi a single pikin attends. Snakes and lizards don claimed wetin be once a citadel for knowledge.
ekere owukpa tells di same tori, a perhaps worse tale. A school dat educated several generations now hosts only one teacher.
pupils are few. Papa and mama, disillusioned, don fled to private institutions. Di collapse na total.
across di district, once-thriving schools are now shadows for dia former selves.
achi ugbugbu. Udaburu. Ejule. Okpudu. Atamaka. Each tells a tori for decay.
each paints a portrait for neglect. Some schools don no teachers. Odas, no students. Most don neither.
dos who once taught wit gara-gara now speak for despair. Retired headteachers recall classrooms overflowing wit pikin now echo wit emptiness.
insecurity compounds di wahala. For some areas, teachers don fled for dia live. Schools tanda deserted, no bi juss by policy, but by fear.
wetin remains na broken system, a network for schools abandon by di state, forgotten by leadership, and deserted by shey.
owukpa’s pikin are being comot behind. No bi bicos dem lack intelligence. No bi bicos dem lack go. But bicos deh get been failed.
if nothing changes, di kweshion na no longer wen public primary schools for owukpa go kpai, but weda they’re already dead
