Discussion
Between MR. GODSFREY MARY (the
proprietor Better International Christian Academy Jos) and the Media News
Caster who poses question to him as the respondent over the CHIBOK GRADUATION in his school.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Good morning MR.
MARY welcome to the Network service
MR. GODSFREY MARY: Gradually ride on
MEDIA ATTENDANT: How are you able to integrate the graduating Chibok
girls into your school?
MR. GODSFREY MARY: I took excuse from them from the beginning because their standard were very low, though
we have to give them a special classes to improve their reading skills and that
took almost a whole year to be able to help them to read and understand the
subjects they were about to take, though initially there were some emotional
problems from the girls. And for the first three months it was really burden to
us. And they supposed to have graduated by now, but those problems remain a
lasting solution to sort out.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Now after you put them through in reading and
writing, now can you tell us the level of their compliance in terms of understanding
the teaching and modern process?
MR. GODSFREY MARY: Oh!, very ok, even when they came half of them
couldn’t read but now when I go to their hostel to see them, when I speak in
Hausa, they respond in English which they rarely do when they came. To tell you
the level of confidence they have acquired in the process. And now I believe
that most of them will succeed provided they are given the opportunity to
further their education.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Mr. Mary, in your welcome address during the event, you
say that 8 out of the 40 Chibok girls sent to your school left, can you tell us
what really happened?
MR. GODSFREY MARY: Some of them have change of environment as they wish
because they were emotionally leaving the school, and it is more of an
emotional trauma. And they wanted to go home and get married, and we did
everything possible appreciating the problem and showing them we knew what they
were going through and made them understand that education is the only way
forward for them. But the urge kept on hiking them, though they left as
follows: first it was three persons, follows by two and finally another three
left.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Now, what
other advice do you have for others stakeholders in their education sector and off course what
many Nigeria must have best to have improved our education sector?
MR. GODSFREY MARY: Education sector had completely gone everywhere, if
you go to the public schools, as a proprietor I do give scholarship to Orphans
and I keep them from public schools. And by the time I bring them to the
school, most of them cannot read and write. Faulty, there is fundamental
problems from the primary schools; there is no good foundation laid for them at
the primary school level. Government must have to be serious when they talk
about education. And this problem begins from the local government level
because at this stage education is dead in this country. Primary schools
systems had completely collapse and any invading behind such foundation will
not last, that is the problem we have in this country and I think the private
sector and government must come together. There are no genuine reasons why a
nine years old child could not read and write, because that is where learning
began. The private sector and the government coming together, there is too much
talking the needs through this level and there is too much meeting here and there
involving that there is certainly no problem. That is not the correct answer to
the issues at hand. We certainly need professors administering in the ministry
and go back to the grass root. Then sit down and mention the decisions we have
within the teaching already on ground. You go to the primary school; you will
find a teacher cannot even speak good English. And he or she is meant to teach
your kids, and that is a big problem in this country Nigeria. Chibok girls told
me that, and these were girls who were supposed to be taken their SSCE Exams by
now; but they couldn’t speak English talk more of good ones. However source, we
would succeed in life.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Thank you very much MR. GODSFREY MARY, and thank you so much for the good Job you are
doing and we hope that many more Nigerians will take care of their kids from
what you are doing so that we can now have improved education and give that
future to them who are the future leaders of the nation. Thank so much for
talking with us on this media platform.
MR. GODSFREY MARY: Thank you
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Now, let us link up to the Chairman Chibok Local
Government Area of Bornu state, Nigeria, MR.
YAGA YAKAWA, who was also present at the graduation ceremony.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: MR. YAGA YAKAWA, thank you for joining us on the network news
MR. YAGA YAKAWA: Thank you so much
MEDIA ATTENDANT: 8 out of the 40 students sent to Better International Christian
Academy rejected the offer and rest of their own donations to speak; do you
know their way about? And what can you tell us about them?
MR. YAGA YAKAWA: to be frankly speaking, you know in terms of
academic, when somebody is determined to schedule and go for studies;
especially when she has no adventure ambition, it can be regarded as all doubt
at the earlier stage. Now, these girls had decided on their own, to opt out of
Better International Christian Academy because they are interested in getting
married rather than going to school. Even if they were left in Girls Secondary
School Chibok, they may not like to continue with their studies because they preferred
being married than going to school.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Now that the 32 of them had graduated from the
secondary school successfully, is there any plan by the government to have them
further their education? What plans do you have for them now?
MR. YAGA YAKAWA: of course, the Bornu state government had planned for
future of these girls because the reasons they are placed in the Better
international Christian Academy is to further their education and a craft had
been set aside to make sure they attended the best schools that a son to ambassador
or a rich man may afford to go within Nigeria or Outside Nigeria.
MEDIA ATTENDANT: Thank you so much for speaking with us on this media
platform
MR. YAGA YAKAWA: Thank you very much, you are welcomed
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