Make findings of school desk contract public, Edo PDP tells Oshiomhole

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has challenged the state government to make public the findings of a panel that looked into the award of contract for supply of school desks to secondary schools in the state, few years ago. State chairman of the party, Chief Dan Orbih, stated this in Benin City, while donating notebooks and textbooks worth millions of naira to students of Ihongbe College. Orbih, who was conferred with the Nigeria Academic and Authors Award (NAAA) award in March by the association, had, on the occasion, promised to regularly support the NAAA in providing students in Edo public schools with relevant exercise books and textbooks. “Government should put politics aside and address the problem facing the education sector in Edo State. Go round the secondary schools, you will see that the students don’t have chairs, desks and teachers. “Even the schools that were renovated don’t have the necessary facilities to deliver content. Government should reduce expenses on frivolous travelling and entertainment of guests and concentrate on the business of governance,” Orbih said. In her remark, Principal of Ihongbe Junior Secondary School, Mrs Helen Oronsaye, praised the philanthropic gesture of Chief Orbih, pointing out that many students in the school were from poor families and could not afford to buy notebooks and textbooks on their own.