Lawmaker laments poor outing of A’Ibom school at quiz competition

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The Deputy Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly and member representing Itu State Constituency, Hon. Kufre Abasi Edidem, has expressed concern over the performance of a secondary school that participated in the just-concluded ARISE quiz competition, tagged BrainWave.

He also expressed the desire to launch an investigation into the school’s performance to determine the real cause of the issue.

Edidem said this while fielding questions from newsmen at a civic centre in Itu LGA after the quiz competition for secondary schools in Itu LGA, which he sponsored, also tagged BrainWave, on Friday.

Though he declined to mention the name of the school, the lawmaker expressed disappointment that the best three students fielded by the school for the quiz competition were unable to answer a single question, prompting him to call for a state of emergency at the school.

He said, “And there’s a particular school in Itu that I said we should declare a state of emergency on. This school came here for the competition; you know each school will bring in their best three, so if the three best students of the school who are going to write the West African Examination Council and in three subjects they couldn’t answer one question, a state of emergency should be declared on that school.”

The lawmaker, who noted that not everything should be pushed to the government, said he would liaise with the council chairman to see what intervention could be made to address the situation.

According to him, “We have taken note of the situation, and we cannot leave everything to the government alone. We, as representatives, will look into the situation. I have spoken to the council chairman, and on our own, we are going to see what the root cause is: Is it that there are not enough teachers? Or are the teachers not doing what they should do?” Punch