Joseph Odok|2 November 2017
Some persons are posting Ayade's achievement on educational policies and they are laughable. I dare to ask them to throw light on how they have directly affected Cross River State Education on specific indices like:
1. Performance of students in Examination in WAEC, NECO, MOCK, JAMB, and the performance index of our students in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. As a lecturer, I can boldly say that the performance index of students of in Cross River State owned primary and secondary schools leaves so little to be desired. Facts on ground shows very little achievement in terms of performance in Cross River State owned schools
2. Infrastructure: A tour through Cross River State owned primary, secondary and tertiary institutions like CRUTECH, College of Education Akamkpa, ITM Ugep, College of Health Technology and Nursing Schools shows an embarrassment to our education. Our state library is an eyesore and embarrassment to the reality of two Professors as Governor and deputy. The face of our primary, secondary and tertiary institutions have worn a decapitated look besides media propaganda by the aides to the Governor.
3. Scholarship: the scholarship system have been killed since the inception of this present administration. Our foreign students have been abandoned in foreign countries gnashing their teeth in penury and utter neglect by the Cross River State Government. Ayade long stopped his personal scholarship program immediately he was sworn into power. Worst of it is the fact that scholarship programs that ran effectively in Donald Duke's and Liyel Imoke's administrations have long been discontinued by our most revered Professors.
4. Employment: the issue of employment in CRS has often ended in advertisements, screening without actual employment of staff. Employment issues are at best reduced to propaganda and media hype
5. Salaries: Primary school teachers are the worst victims of unpaid or delayed salaries. They are classed as Local Government staff and recklessly forced to other means of survival, sometimes in utter neglect of their duty
6. Promotions: For more than 7 years staff staff in Cross River State civil service were never promoted. After much agitations by way of strike, the government sought to buy time and advert strike by issuing empty letters of promotion with no financial benefit till 2018
I am perceived as acting in hatred of Ayade, no I long for a better CRS. I am waiting for engagement and and faulting of my argument on facts presented. Other wise it is time to join the campaign #AyadeMustGo
Joseph Odok
Social Change Agent
