working with one of the None governmental Organization (NGO) has made me to know how weak our government is.
earlier this week I and my friend embarked on a visit to some of public schools in my state here in the eastern part of Nigeria.
on the visit to some schools I got to know that students are suffering due to lack of maintenance.
it gives me worries seeing students studying under leaking roofs, sitting on the floor, lacking books and just to mention but few.
I schooled in a public school, during my time in the primary school there are many things I enjoyed as a student, which the present students struggle to get.
each and every school that we visited don't have the least first aid box talk more of other necessities.
how can you give someone a food with water, it is weird, you built a toilet for pupils (water system) without water, what do you expect them to do.
A toilet without water is as good as nothing coz it won't be in use.
Due to lack of taking care of the government schools made the public school to lack teachers. during my years in the public school, Umuominta community school to be specific, it was one class two teachers thats A and B but now it is two or three classes one teacher, it is very very bad.
through out my visitation I did not see a school that has more than 5 teachers, that's from nursery 1 to primary 6. some villagers even provided teachers to the schools in their communities and be paying them , they are now doing the works of the government.
what's really the problem, is it that government lack the money to take care of this schools or some individuals are eating the money meant for the schools .
what way do you think that we can help the students.
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I imagine your government is not weak at all. That like the government here in the US that they are only weak when it comes to caring for the lower class, but operate with a fine tuned efficiency and ruthlessness when it comes to being strong for those with money and power.
I have watched my own government over the last many decades shed most of the illusion that they cared for us and now openly flaunt they believe they own us. One of the more chilling examples in recent years ( My gosh there are so many) is how they allowed the drinking water in Flint Michigan to become undrinkable, yet no one sounded the alarm and they let those people bathe and drink that for years.
https://news.yahoo.com/flint-water-crisis-626m-settlement-235443584.html
They reached a settlement of 626 million dollars, but none of that will be able to purchase the health affects the residents now have to live with, for those who weren't already in poor health and the poisoned water was the last straw that pushed them into dying. Then as you say the corruption will now see two things happen.
First, the state and city needing to pay this have no money of their own, they collect their money through taxes. So the penalty will fall across citizens who were innocent of the corruption causing this in the first place. Those responsible get to keep all of their blood money they made by allowing it to get to that point.
There will now be lawyers and other "officials" who will need paid to administer this which will see yet another shift of the so called compensation not go to those impacted, allowing it to flow yet again to a corrupt bureaucracy.
I could go on, these things make me so livid with anger. Sadly, they are able to turn us against one another here along racial lines, false political lines, class lines, etc all the while those who exploit all of us and are the creators of so much evil escape unscathed as they roll in their piles of money.
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