The government child in Nigeria is supposed
to be catered for by the government when we talking about amenities, utilities
and stuffs (schools, hospitals, basic comfortabilities) but the government
child in Nigeria is left at the mercy
of the parents whether available at
demand or not who might not be available enough or financially buoyant to cater
for such needs as demanded by the child.
The facilities provided
eventually by the government are either not efficient enough due to the
inadequate qualified staffs or cannot possibly serve the teaming population
depending on that facility from various nearby communities. From the schools,
the hospitals to other government intervention programs, they are either
inadequate or don’t materialize due to funds being syphoned by trustees and
community heads.
Travelling on road from Plateau
state to Abuja, i could not help but notice the amount of students from
government owned schools walking kilometers back home from school then it hit
me, why don’t government schools in Nigeria have buses to convey these school
wards from home to school and back home like every other regular country, it’s
the simplest thing to make the wards life abit easy and safe. Most private
schools in Nigeria own school buses and the students don’t necessarily need
these buses because they either live close by or their parents drop them off
and pick them with their private owned cars, so am wandering. Here are students
who desperately need mobility but can’t get it either because the government
doesn’t see the need or the funds have been miss-appropriated and on the other
had is privileged kids from rich homes not riding the bus because they can.
The school conditions are not a
thing to brag about as schools (government owned) don’t have facilities as
minute as desks from pupils, books are not provided definitely neither are
qualified teachers employed to coach these said future leaders. In a school i
served in Kwara state, Omu Aran to be précised (name of school withheld) the
school teaching has been over run by corpers so every year the students have to
learn under a new teacher all because the state government does not want to
employ permanent teachers and the ones available and qualified are moving to
greener pastures leaving the students at the mercy of unqualified teachers who
use local dialet to teach subjects including english.
The qualified teachers on the
other hand dont really care about the wards partly because their children are
not attending such schools and maybe cause they are not paid adequately by
their employers.
The government prioritizes
unnecessary things and turn deaf ears and blind eyes to basic social and
environmental needs of the populace. A large chunk of funds in the national
budgets are allocated to things that don’t result to the betterment of the
society nor the future of the country and the funds allocated for public
amenities are diverted by office holders simply because we don’t hold our
leadeers responsible for messes they create.
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