Worried by the delapidated state of the infrastructure at the Community Primary School, Ikem in Etche local Government Area of Riversstate ,the community has appealed to the state government and state universal Basic Education Board (RSUBEB)to urgently come to their rescue and save the only school from total collapse.
The traditional ruler of the community, Chief Precious Amadi made the appeal while speaking to journalists after the Community Development Committee meeting held over the weekend in the community .
Amadi, who is also the Oko 1 of the community, took journalists around the entire school building and lamented that despite every efforts made by the community to draw the attentions of the various government agencies concerned nothing has been done to change the ugly situation, stressing that the school has been abandoned in its present condition.
He noted that the educational future of the pupils in the community is uncertain if no effort is made to repair the decayed infrastructures and provide desks and other basic ammunities required for a functional school.
According to him,the pupils have been having their basic and primary education studies under an informal arrangements through a private personal arrangement as a temporary intervention put in place by an indigene of the community outside the school building , adding that the place where they are staying to learn was not conducive .
The traditional ruler used the opportunity to call on the state government and the local government administration to come to their aid and rescue the school from imminent collapse.
Amadi also appealed to the State Universal Basic Education Board (RSUBEB)to post more teachers to the school and regretted that the school has only but one teacher and a headmaster who hardly come to the school.