How Oyo Governor treated the malefactors in school managements in Oyo state.

The  governor of Oyo state used the opportunity at a event on Tuesday 22nd of December to react to the issue floating in the new media concerning writing of exam questions on the blackboard and failure to give pupils printed report card in some public schools in Oyo state.

The governor's reaction was not to defend or deny the incident but as a reply to the NUT claim that Oyo state government has not given schools running grant for consecutive terms reporting the governor to have said that he will not release any grant until those who fail to account for the previous money do.

The governor, Engineer Oluseyi Makinde described the scene as a blackmail on the part of the government but didn't deny the NUT claim but affirmed that he will not give another grant until those schools account for the one previously given to them and promise that the perpetrators of the mismanagement and misconduct will soon face the action of the just established state anti-corruption agency - OYACA.

The question arose now is "why should pupils be punished for the misconduct of their school managements?" To me this is not a good approach to correct the malefactors but an act that will further degenerate the education sector in the state. The malefactors should have been dealt with without stopping the grants in the first place or are they too big to be questioned by the governor and the only way to punish them is to stop what they are stealing, this will be terrible, and tragic. Yoruba proverb said "Aikuku u joye o san ju enu mi o Kali" meaning Not being in power in better than being their without power.

I will urge the governor to do the needful by calling the perpetrators into account rather than playing with the live of the electorates' children.

This issue remind me of the days of my primary school back then in ogun state, I am privileged  to attend private school then but at the end of every term in our school we were given report sheet while in our public school counterparts they would be given report booklet, we use to envy them and always felt bad for ourselves for not having report booklet but sheet, a whole term work on a sheet of paper!. But now this pupils got nothing, not even sheet that make me feel bad then. How will they feel, can they be patriotic to the state now and in the future with this sort of treatment from their elders who enjoyed well-managed quality free education during their time?.