Convener of the PDP Alliance for Democracy and public affairs analyst in Bayelsa State, Ekiye Akposeye has raised the alarm over lack of classrooms at Ogobiri community in Sagbama Local Government of the state.
He said in a statement on Tuesday that the situation had compelled students to resort to the use of market square as their classrooms during learning hours.
The immediate-past governor of the state and senator representing Bayelsa West in the National Assembly, Seriake Dickson comes from Sagbama LGA.
“It is quite, honestly, worrying that in 2023 students would have to attend classes in a market square at Ogobiri community.
“Even beyond politics this is bad. As a PDP supporter this is not good for the optics. Sagbama has been, for years, one of the strong bases of our party. The news of the unfortunate happenings at Ogobiri is not a good show of our party’s value system”, Akposeye said.
He said he learnt the incumbent governor had been briefed about the consequences of such development to his second term campaign bid and that he had asked his Commissioner for Education to visit the area.
The Sagbama leader further said, “I am told the governor is freshly aware of the fact children are being taught in the market square at Ogobiri as there are no classes and has directed the Hon. Commissioner for Education who is to arrive there on the 12th of September.
“The common thought is for the APC and its governorship candidate not to be aware of the incidence at Ogobiri hence the hasty dispatch of the Education Commissioner, but sadly, the Ogobiri incidence has been common knowledge for months and it is not something to politicize.
“The approach is simple and classical: build classroom blocks at Ogobiri and take our children off the streets and markets”.
