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VIDEO:Edo Teacher Fails To Read Age Declaration Affidavit

Posted by: Channels Television Posted date: August 14, 2013 In: Headlines | comment : 3 Comments

Edo state governor, Adams Oshiomhole yesterday nabbed a teacher Mrs. Augusta Odemwigwe who could not read properly.

Mrs Odemwigwe was asked to read an affidavit she swore to declare her age but to the amusement of all, she stuttered continuously until the governor helped in reading it for her.

The teacher, when asked to repeat a sentence she didn’t read well replied in ‘pigin’ English saying “make I start am afresh”.

Oshiomhole, stunned by the low level of intellect displayed by Odemwigwe, who has spent 20 years in the profession, read the sworn affidavit and wondered if she could write same on the board.

Mrs Odemwigwe has spent over 20 years in the teaching profession and presently teaches in Asalogun Primary School in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo state.

The governor discovered this during an exercise to screen over a thousand teachers involved in fraud. The teachers are accused of falsifying documents to get into service.

Nigeria: Verification - Edo Teacher Can't Read Own Certificate

BY SIMON EBEGBULEM, 14 AUGUST 2013

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Benin City — IT was drama, Tuesday, at the venue of the verification of certificates of primary school teachers in Edo State, as a teacher in Asologun Primary School, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state, Mrs. Augusta Odemwinge could not read a sworn affidavit she purportedly tendered as part of her credentials.

The state governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, who paid an unscheduled visit to the state Staff Training Centre, venue of the exercise, said "if you can't read, what do you teach the pupils, what do you write on the board?"

Chairman of the state Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Patrick Ikosimi, who was also at the screening to monitor the exercise, said that the woman's failure was "an embarrassment."

On arrival at the centre, the governor took time to peruse some of the teacher's credentials and documents presented.

When Mrs. Odenwingie took her turn during the exercise, the governor, who listened to her defence, asked her to read the affidavit she presented, but she stuttered, to the consternation of everybody around.

Ikosimi, who described Mrs. Odemwingie's failure to read a document she presented as an embarrassment, said the union was in tune with the state government on the need to sanitise the school system.

He said: "We are committed to partnering the government to reposition education in the state. What this teacher has just displayed is a show of shame; it shows the decadence in the education sector.

"As the chairman of NUT, I had written to the governor that we are in total support of what he is doing.

"He should properly involve the NUT, so that together we can fish out the culprits, who are not viable as far as the system is concerned," he said.