Edo 2024: PDP Aspirant Laments Dearth Of Teachers In Public Schools

Mr. Anslem Ojezua, one of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirants for the Edo State governorship election slated for September 21, 2024, has lamented the dearth of teachers in the state, saying that if elected governor, his priority would be to revive the defunct Teachers Training College (TTC) system to fill the vacuum in the state’s educational system to solve the problem.

Ojezua, a one time Commissioner for Information under the government of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and immediate past State Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), before following Governor Godwin Obaseki to join the PDP, stated this when he held an interactive sections with members of the Correspondent Chapel of the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), at the Chapel’s secretariat on Ogbesasa Street, off Sokponba Road, Benin City.

Ojezu posited that to address the problem, attention must shift to the issue of TTC which he regreted was abrogated with the introduction of the National Certificate on Education (NCE), as the basic requirement to teach at the primary school level.

I am very concerned about education, particularly at the fundamental level, because we have enough schools, but no enough teachers to handle them. In most cases, it can be traced to the fact that it looks like the state does not have the capacity to pay for the number of teachers that are required, but we will have to look for a way to do it, that is, find a solution.

we used to have all round classroom administrators, and teachers for special subjects like Mathematics and Physics going round, but each teacher is supposed to take care of his class, that is not the case anymore.

He however assured that if nominated and elected governor next year, his administration would put in place policies that would not only improve on the present healthcare delivery system in the state, but that would make the sector attractive such that players therein would not want to leave the state to go abroad.