Obaseki pleads with EGHOBA not to ask government to take over school

Governor Godwin Obaseki has appealed to fellow old boys of the Eghosa Anglican grammar school old boys association (EGHOBA) not to ask the state government to take over of the school as a result of the dilapidated condition of the school infrastructure and facilities.

Governor Obaseki made this passionate plea while addressing the association during the gala/award night held on Saturday in Benin City whereby a total of twenty eight personalities were given award of excellence for their contributions to the development of the school and education in general.

It will be recalls that delegates to the convention led by Bishop Agbe Davies embarked on tour of the school premises and facilities and after seeing the indescribable decay of the structures, the unhealthy and unsanitary condition of the entire premises, hereby unanimously resolved to ask the state government to immediately take over the school in the best interest of education in the state and most especially the young students who are being subjected daily to such un-conducive learning environment.

Governor Obaseki who was one of the awardees and emotionally touched after watching the video clip of the convention tour noted “We should not be deterred, if we could be able to accomplish all that we have accomplished putting our resources together we can rebuild that school. I want to make an admonition this evening. There is a connection between our faith and our school and we should not break
that connection.

“Yes we can mandate government to take over the school tomorrow, but can government take over our faith? We must sit back and reflect a bit, it may not be the way to go immediately. I believe that we can work with the Anglican communion, I don’t dispel we will work with the Anglican communion we will engage and get this school build within the timeframe we are going to do it.

“We are not going to wait for the two years. Let us not ask government to take over our school, let us all come together and engage the proprietor and we will influence that engagement to work together and rebuild that school. The reason I went to Eghosa and not Edo College was because my parent wanted me and us to receive religious instruction and if we take that out of that school we have taken away the key aspect of the essence of that school.

I want to assure that we have enough reach and power and influence to make it happen. Let not dispel let us still raise money, but not tonight, we are going to do it in a structure manner, am sure that the money we need and we will rebuild our school. By the time we are celebrating the 61st anniversary of that school, the picture will be totally different.

“My message to all the chapters is that as you go back to your various chapters meetings know that we are going to come back to you, to demand of you, to put pressure on you, to make that sacrifice to rebuild our school. We will raise the money and we will build the school we are truly proud of, we will build the school that will be
better than that which we attended. Do not dispel, it is not in our spirit to dispel.”