Ikpoba in Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, hasbeen able to
perform her duties is something that the Governor, Mr.Adams
Oshiomhole, has not been able to understand. In her care was entrusted
the onerous responsibility of shaping the minds of children. But she
proved Tuesday that she was barely better than the pupils she was
employed to teach.
Odemwinge failed a crucial test in her career at the screening of
teachers by the Edo State Government in Benin City when she could not
read a sworn affidavit she tendered as part of her credentials.
The drama played out when Oshiomhole paid an unscheduled visitto the
State Staff Training Centre, venue of the exercise.
The governor, who was appalled that a teacher could not read, said:
"If you can't read, what do you teach the pupils? What do you write
on the board?"
Also perplexed was the state Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers
(NUT), Mr. Patrick Ikosimi, who was at the venue to monitor the
screening. He described the woman's failure to performthe simple task
assigned to her as "an embarrassment".
The drama, it was learnt, began when Odemwinge took her turn forthe
exercise, as Oshiomhole who was listening to her defence asked her to
read the affidavit she presented.
In doing that, she stuttered as she read the affidavit like a
kindergarten learning to read, to the consternation of everybody
around.
Ikosimi, while flaying the conduct of Odemwinge, said the union was in
tune with the state government on the need to sanitise the school
system.
"We are committed to partnering the government to reposition education
in the state. What this teacher has just displayed is a show of shame;
it shows the decadence in the education sector.
"As the chairman of NUT, I have written to the governor that we are in
total support of what he is doing. He should properly involvethe NUT
so that together we can fish out the culprits who are not viable as
far as the system is concerned," he said.
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