Reps member, Ogah, blames Jamb staff who don’t like South-Easterners of sabotage 

Urges FG to deploy ICT in all primary, secondary schools in Nigeria 

By Uchenna Okeh Abakaliki

The House of Representatives member, Chinedu Ogah representing Ikwo/ Ezza South federal constituency in the national assembly has urged the federal government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to deploy ICT in all primary and secondary schools in Nigeria 

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He blamed Jamb staff who do not like the people of the southeast region for sabotage during the last Jamb examination that took place in the various states of the country.

He made this known while speaking with newsmen shortly after the flag off of health activation in readiness for the drug revolving fund and distribution of medical equipment to general hospitals held at the Akanu-Ibiam international conference centre Abakaliki.

According to him: “The issue about our education is that the system is purely collapsed. We are rushing things by talking about ICT when we have no network. 

“When it came up in the National Assembly, I told them that if we want to do the right thing, let us urge the federal government to deploy ICT in all primary school and secondary schools.

“By then, it has become a course to study in all our schools. They will get acquainted with ICT. Then gradually, they will upgrade. By then, you will be having network services in all the local government wards. And that is when you can take off going into ICT. 

He however, urged the stakeholders of the SouthEast region to have a rethink “To all the south easterners, It’s high time we should have a rethink and reprogram ourselves and do what is right and get back to the grassroots. We are known as people with innovation.

“We are known as people with the internet. We are known as people who can develop apps.  Let’s go back to technology and build our tactics that will help us to grow”.

“Not about Facebook, not about noise-making. We know our strength and intelligence. What happened to the Jamb is a pure sabotage of the staff of the Jamb who do not like the South-Eastern.

“And that was it. It was a staff that works in ICT that did that manipulation that made such a thing to happen. It’s not the registrar’s fault because the registrar controls so many people in that office.

” But we want the registrar to review his staff and review what is obtainable. 

And the major issue we are having is rushing things. You quickly fix a Jamb without any provision for those students that are going to write Jamb in so many places.

“You have seen some of them have lost their lives. But we have to thank Mr. President by now reviving certain things back to Nigerians that we have the capacity to produce what we want.

Speaking on the plans by WASC to introduce ICT as a prerequisite for writing the next WASC and NECO said: 

“Talking about WASC adopting the use of CBT, Am a science student. How will you now combine the titration when you are mixing carbon dioxide with CO2 to get a result? 

“If you have an equilibrium when you are now doing a thesis and you bring what is called load, fulcrum and force, how do you measure it by bringing the equation?  In mathematics, when you have a quadratic equation, quadratic elimination by permutation method, how do you do that with ICT?  

“I said in this way, we say that you cannot work. We are killing our education. We are killing our science.

Science is purely practical. Our students need to emulate what practical is all about. And that is the only thing we have in this country.

“We believe everything is fake and they cannot lead us anywhere” he stated.