Dadinone pays a working visit to Sapele Technical College, promises a facelift for the school

By Ovasa Ogaga,

The Senator Representing Delta Central Senatorial District, Senator Ede Dafinone, today, Monday, paid a working visit to one of the oldest Technical Colleges in Nigeria, Sapele Technical College which was founded in 1952 to get first-hand information on the state of decaying infrastructures and equipment in the school.

The Delta Central lawmaker said that the visit offered him and his team the opportunity to have a spot assessment of the challenges facing the school, particularly the poor state of some of the ageing equipment for teaching practicals and the absence of power supply to the school in the past two years.

He added that the visit gave him an insight into what can be done in the short-term, medium-term and long-term by Federal and State governments to reposition this great institution to an enviable height.

Accompanied on this visit by Delta Central Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Paulinus Akpeki, Chief Ejaife Odebala, Hon Felix Ayemidejor, Chief Patrick Akamovba, Chief Godday Okpako and other stakeholders, he promised to work with the state and federal government to give the school a facelift.

Moved by the school principal’s testimony and what he had seen, the senator promised to do everything he can to bring positive development to the school.

“I’m not going to make any promises that I can’t keep,” he said. “But I can promise that I’m going to do everything I can to help this school.

“This a fact-finding visit, I understand what our community wants I will carry that message to the state and to the federal and be sure that we are doing the right thing. And I know what the end goal is and will be sure that we carry it out.”

Speaking earlier, the Principal of Sapele Technical College, Mrs Itawansa Rosemary, took the Senator and his team through the Automobile Mechanic Department, Electrical Workshop Department, Furniture Department and other departments of the school, decried the poor state of the school and asked for government interventions.

She gave a heartbreaking account of how she came to the school one and a half years ago and how she met the school in a bad State. She said the lack of power has made it impossible to run the workshops, and that the students have been forced to learn in darkness.

“It’s a very difficult situation, the students are frustrated, and the teachers are demoralized. We’re all just hoping that something will change soon. I use over one hundred thousand naira to run this school every month”

Mrs. Itawansa also said that the school has been the target of vandalism. that thieves have broken into the workshops and stolen tools and equipment.

“It’s like a nightmare,” she said. “We’re just trying to keep the school going, but it’s an uphill battle.”