Parents send SOS to government on deplorable school facilities in Bomadi

Parents under the umbrella of Patents/Teachers Association, PTA have decried the deplorable state of facilities at the Esenaebe College, Bomadi, pleading to the Delta State government to come to the aid of the school by overhauling its infrastructures to meet the present standard of public schools in the stat

Chairman of the association, Erebor Amafaotu made the appeal while responding to questions from newsmen in Bomadi after conducting them round the school facilities.

He maintained that Esenaebe Teacher Training College as it was known before the institute was phased out in 2006, was the academic hub of the then Western Ijaw Division and added that when the school was downgraded in 2006 to a secondary school by past administration in the state, Esenaebe College was abandoned.

The chairman noted that the school still makes use of facilities of 1956 when the institute was founded, saying that “most of the school buildings have collapsed. The few once being used as classrooms are in a very bad state with some blown off roofs and cracked walls, teachers and student cannot learn during rain due to leakages, which pose a big risk to students studying in the school and as such, can affect their health condition”.

Vice Principal of the College, Ekpulu Friday who also saw the need for urgent government attention to bring back the glory of the school, lamented the dilapidated condition of the school facilities and stated that the school requires total overhaul to meet modern standard.

One of the dilapidated structures at Esenaebe College, Bomadi

Friday explained further, “during rainfall, learning has to come to an abrupt stop due to leakages all over the roof. The absence of these facilities has adversely affected learning”.

According to him, the plight of the school is not limited to infrastructure, but teachers as well, just as he pleaded with the state Ministry of Education to revamp the College.

Mrs. Philomena Ogodobiri, an alumnus of the defunct Esenaebe Teacher Training College and now a teacher with the Esenaebe College relieves her experience thus, “the school has died”.

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