Principals in Rivers State Technical Colleges are crying over the sudden disappearance of technical teachers in the Rivers State Technical Colleges all over the state. The situation is so bad that the technical education system in the state is already facing extinction.
Investigation by The Newswriter revealed that principals in almost all the technical colleges in the state have the same sad story to tell as none of them can boast of a qualified sound technical teacher in the technical education system.
The worst affected is Government Technical College, Slaughter, Trans Amadi. Despite the efforts of the principal who had tirelessly worked so hard to redeem the image of the school administratively, no positive result has come out as the required technical teachers could only come from the state government’s careful arrangement, which had become so impossible as at the time of filing this report, since the state ministry of Education had not paid careful attention to address this one teething problem of the students.
Some teachers our news desk anchored, revealed under anonymous condition that the students are seriously being affected by the sad development and seized the opportunity to appeal to the Rivers State governor to do something fast to put back the once sound technical education system on track, by employing sound qualified teachers and send them to all the technical colleges in the state to avoid the extinction of technical educational system.
Apart from the technical educational system facing extinction, some of the schools’ buildings are also dilapidated. This is also affecting the students studying inside such buildings.
Some students our news desk spoke to disclosed, “it is only God that is saving us from some ugly embarrassments, mostly in rainy periods.”
The students hinted that any time the weather changes, they will be entertaining fear of the unknown because of the dilapidated condition of their school buildings.
The students commended the efforts of the governor in building modern schools and pleaded that the same kind gesture should be extended to them, to also have a conducive learning environment.
The students stressed that what the governor is doing is in the right perspective but he should also remember the state owned technical colleges just as he is doing to the state government owned secondary and primary schools.
“Like the good father and leader that he is, he should be fair to all the schools provided the school bears the state government banner,” the students pleaded.
However, there is little improvement as the state government had supplied some chairs to the schools in Trans-Amadi axis. On investigation, The Newswriter gathered that some smaller secondary schools with less population were given more chairs than some of the schools that are more in population in the Trans-Amadi axis.
Our news desk roving around caught the attention of Government Technical College, slaughter, Trans Amadi and found out that the chairs supplied to the college could not really accommodate the population of students whereas smaller schools like that of Oginigba had larger number of chairs. ###
Allanso Jonathan Allanso
