Delta Gov: Reckless Priorities and the Plight of Ogo-Eze Schools in Delta State

Concerns over the condition of Ogo-Eze Primary School and Ogo-Eze Secondary Commercial School in Ogodobiri and Ezebiri, Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, have prompted renewed calls for urgent government intervention. Community concerns outlined in this statement include unsafe classroom conditions, shortages of teachers, inadequate learning facilities and the impact on children’s access to education. Deacon Chris Iyovwaye’s statement calls for an emergency response to address the reported challenges facing these riverine schools.

The governance of any state is measured not by the vanity of its concrete monuments, but by the safety, dignity, and future it secures for its most vulnerable citizens. Yet, in Delta State, a chasm has opened between the administration’s lavish, self-congratulatory spending on multi-billion naira urban bridge projects and the dystopian, dehumanizing reality confronting its public schools.

​While billions are funneled into high-profile structures designed for political optics, the foundational pillars of Delta’s future, its youth and their education, are being left to rot in real time. This is not merely an administrative oversight; it is a profound moral failure and a direct abdication of constitutional responsibility.

​Nowhere is this systematic neglect more glaringly apparent than at Ogo-Eze Primary School and Ogo-Eze Secondary Commercial School, which serve the resilient sister communities of Ogodobiri and Ezebiri along the treacherous banks of the Forcados River in Bomadi Local Government Area. The conditions under which these children are expected to learn are a national embarrassment and an outright indictment of Governor Sheriff Oborevwori’s priorities.

​Key Pillars of Administrative Failures:

​Hazardous, Dehumanizing Learning Environments:

Children in the Ogo-Eze schools are subjected to third-world conditions right here in the oil-rich Niger Delta. They are forced to sit on bare, damp concrete floors inside crumbling, roofless classrooms, completely exposed to torrential tropical rains, blistering sunshine, crawling insects, and dangerous reptiles. That an administration can bask in the luxury of governance while innocent primary school pupils share their classrooms with venomous wildlife is an aberration that defies all human conscience.

​A Critical Staffing Emergency:

The Ogo-Eze Secondary Commercial School has been reduced to an academic desert, operating with a skeleton crew of no more than three or four demoralized teachers. No one teaches vital core subjects, including Mathematics, English Language, Chemistry, and Biology.
Instead, a severely overworked educator must stretch across multiple disciplines outside their field of expertise, making quality instruction mathematically impossible.

​Total Absence of 21st-Century Infrastructure:

Established as far back as 1978, the secondary commercial school possesses virtually nothing to justify its name. It completely lacks basic office equipment, functioning desks, chalkboards, and any vestige of a modern educational curriculum. In an era of digital literacy, these students lack basic learning tools, deepening the developmental gap between rural riverine children and their urban peers.

​Forced Migration and Community Disintegration:

Driven by desperation and a justifiable fear for their children’s safety and future, parents are actively fleeing the public school system. Families are forced to send their children away to live with distant relatives in other towns to access a functional classroom. The government’s failure is actively destabilizing the social fabric of Ogodobiri and Ezebiri.

​A Call for Immediate Accountability and Emergency Action

​As passionately and repeatedly echoed by the Ogodobiri Community leadership, the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), and the Bomadi Political Leaders Forum (BPLF), the current administration’s callous indifference toward rural riverine education is indefensible.

​Unfortunately, the state government continues to revel in the euphoria and fanfare of mega-contracts while Niger Delta children, the federation’s wealth generator, sit on muddy ground alongside ants and reptiles.

These priorities betray the social contract between the elected and the electorate.
​Governor Sheriff Oborevwori and the Delta State Ministry of Education can no longer hide behind empty political rhetoric. This level of criminal negligence demands immediate, uncompromising public interrogation and corrective intervention.

​The people of Ogodobiri, Ezebiri, and riverine Delta at large do not need cosmetic promises; they require an immediate emergency rescue package for Ogo-Eze schools, a comprehensive infrastructure overhaul, and a Delta Reset that puts human capital above political monuments.

Deacon Chris Iyovwaye’s RESET DELTA is needed now for a new Delta.