APC Laments Alleged Comatose Condition of Education In Oyo, Faults Makinde
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo state has charged the administration of Governor Seyi Makinde over what it described as an unabated downward slide in the standard of education in the state.
The main opposition party in the state issued a statement at the weekend, made available to journalists in Ibadan by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare.
In the statement, the Oyo APC identified scarcity of teachers, deplorable infrastructure, lack of teaching aids and equipment, poor monitoring and supervision, erosion of competent administrators, and experienced experts, poor policy, curriculum review and implementation among others as factors responsible for the evident rot in the state’s education sector.
This came against the background of claims by the state government that the sector had been fixed such that some parents were withdrawing their wards from schools in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other countries in Europe and America to get them enrolled in public schools in Oyo state on account of “Gov. Seyi Makinde Effects”.
The Oyo APC, thereby urged Makinde to wake up from its slumber and act decisively to arrest the trend before things would go out of hand.
The statement reads, “It is time well-meaning citizens and residents of the state began to ask questions on why a key sector like that of education has had to be handled with levity in the last five years. Apart from the fact that the intensity and quality of teachings in most public schools have dropped sharply, several questions are begging for answers regarding the high level of indiscipline and moral decadence among pupils even if one does not bother to raise questions on the performance of pupils from government-owned schools in both internal and external examinations in recent times.
“Many people are worried about the seeming invisibility and inaccessibility of the Commissioner of Education while they get to read about those at the helms of affairs in SUBEB and TESCOM only when the powers-that-be want to move monies through their office in the name of contract awards. If the current administration parades a school as a model, the world should know that there are 2000 others across the state who beg for urgent attention given their deplorable condition.
“The PDP administration of Gov. Makinde claims all is well in the education sector but a simple check by anyone would reveal the truth. It is an understatement that there is not enough staff in public schools the few teachers available are overwhelmed with the workload and lack of basic equipment to enhance service delivery. The story is the same across the 33 local government councils and for the avoidance of doubt, we have our verifiable facts.
“St. Joseph Primary School, Oniyanrin in Ibadan North West LGA has over 1,250 pupils but only four teachers are in charge. SDA Primary School located in two communities of Owobaale and Ibiti in Egbeda LGA has three teachers attending to about 400 pupils while the situation in Baptist Basic School in Tede is the same as six teachers attend to over 320 pupils. At AUD Primary School, Sagan-un in the Igboora area of Ibarapa Central LGA, only eight teachers take care of about 830 pupils while there are just three teachers available to over 220 pupils in Muslim Community Primary School, Baba-Ode in Itesiwaju LGA while Christ Church School, Bioku-Etile in Ona-Ara LGA has about 380 pupils and only three teachers are taking them.
“The situation in public secondary schools is not different if not worse as there no staff to teach core subjects such as Mathematics, English Language, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and so on. In Baptist Secondary Grammar School, Ago-Are located in Atisbo LGA, the Old Student Association of the school has been responsible for the recruitment and payment of ad-hoc teachers to keep their Alma Mater, which has 985 students, afloat. Methodist High School, Isale-Oja, Igangan in Ibarapa North LGA has four teachers attending to 870 students and the trend is all over the state.”
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