The people of Ogbaku in Agwu local government area of Enugu State, have appealed to government at council and state levels to come to their aid and save their only school and cottage hospital.
The President General, Ogbaku Town General Assembly (OGA) in a passionate appeal on government to save their Community Secondary School (CSS) and cottage hospital built over 20 years ago.
The PG of OGA, Jonathan Ene, said their recent meeting with the School Board Management Committee (SBMC) and the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of Community Secondary School (CSS) Ogbaku identified three critical areas of needs of the School.
Mr. Ene said the areas of intervention identified during the interface include; the re-roofing, repairs and maintenance of the dilapidated School Hall which serves as a critical condition for approval of the conduct of WAEC exams in the school; extension of electricity to the school premises to power the school’s computers and other component infrastructures and opening up easily accessible road to the school premises.
“To this end, the leadership of the Ogbaku General Assembly (OGA) make this save-our-soul appeal to our illustrious and Philanthropic-minded sons and daughters to as a matter of urgency, come to the aid of this important institution to save it from impending educational collapse.”
He added that: “The CSS, Ogbaku remains the only secondary School in our town which has provided opportunities for our children to attain secondary School education in our town.
We must therefore not allow this enviable institution to rot away and loose it’s status as a citadel of learning fit for the conduct of WAEC examinations in Ogbaku Town.”
Similarly, Chukwuemeka Okolie Chairman Obinagu Umuatubow Ogbaku, said; “Our cottage hospital built and commissioned in 2000 by Dr Chimaroke Nnamani is dilapidated and needs urgent governance attention.”
Mr. Okolie alleged that “the doctors, nurses, securities and other staff of the hospital receive salaries and allowances as employees of the this hospital even when the hospital is already dead.”
