In recent time, Governor Willie Obiano has recorded profound successes by strategically harvesting the intellectual endowment of government appointees to upgrade social and structural environment of governance for the greater good of the greater number of Ndi Anambra. The greater good can be witnessed in different sectors of the state economy, but more important is the harvest of successes recorded in education.
The harvest of awards and recognition thereto tend to stand the government on a unique and peculiar platform. The thrill is justified by the vocal public commendation which the Governor conveyed to the Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, recently on account of the numerous awards won by students of Anambra State origin in national and international competitive examinations.
Ndi Anambra share in the joy of Governor Obiano in this area. One area that is worthy of note is the unique manner the State Government managed the Primary and Post Primary Schools during the volatile period of the coronavirus pandemic. Ministry of Basic Education collaborated with the Anambra Broadcasting Service to introduce the E-Learning process of teaching-on-air to make up for any loss of time in the education calendar.
We also commend the inter-ministerial collaboration between the Ministries of Health, Women Affairs and Information in the mobilization campaign. That was a showpiece of collective responsibilities in the management of directive principles of state policy.
On the holistic scope of performances, our commendation goes to Akpokuedike for the budgetary provisions and body language. Professor Omenugha equally deserves the public appreciation. She deployed her intellectual resources towards the achievement of the goals of Education in Anambra State. In the process of delivering on the goals, she secured the services of Anambra State Chaplain Corps Policing Explorers to enforce discipline and stem the trend of cultism in Secondary Schools.
The noble objective paid off handsomely as the presence of Chaplain Corps became the dread of cultists and undisciplined students in our schools. The discipline and sanity created by such deployment helped to provide the foundation for the excellent performance of candidates of Anambra State origin in the 2020 University Tertiary Matriculations Examination and the excellent performance of Anambra students in the recent result of the West African Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations.
The joy of these successes lies in the fact that annual streams of candidates presented by the State have maintained a streak of topmost performances in the examination for the past three consecutive years.
The salutary performances have complemented the performances of the students of Regina Paci College, Onitsha who beat their contemporaries from other parts of the world in the International Technovasion Examinations in U.S.A to emerge world champions in 2019.
Furthermore, record showed that in 2015, Professor Omenugha also led the contingent of students of Anambra State origin who represented Nigeria in Singapore for an international debate. And true to type, the students also took first position.
We must, no doubt, commend the Primary and Secondary School teachers who helped in laying the foundation of the streak of successes by teaching the students more like their sons and daughters. They fit into the colloquial paradigm of old broom which sweeps better.
Through these veritable harvests of awards, Ndigbo are re-acquiring the intellectual space which they lost during the civil war, because immediately after the war, our people channeled their efforts towards receiving the twenty pounds promised to adult Igbos that survived the civil war. Ndigbo could not compete then in education, law and commerce, also because the indigenization policy of the Federal Government crippled the destiny and economy of Igbo race. In summary, all the stakeholders in Education have done creditably well. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
WRITTEN BY DR. AZUBUIKE NKALA
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