... As villagers lament over neglect by authorities

The people of Mkpoyi, Umuogbo Agu in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, have appealed to the state Univeral Basic Education Board, ENSUBEB, to come to their aid and rebuild a 55 year old primary school in the area.

They said that their Community Primary School, CPS, which was build by the military administration in 1976, with short walls and unplastered floor had remained like that ever since adding that the pupils in the school also sit on the bare floor which has made them to contract diseases apart jiggers which now find abode on their toes.

Natives of Mkpoyi told the Southeast Post that they had compained to various authorities in the local government without success.

They further said that majority of parents in Mkpoyi and Umuogbo Agu now send their children and wards to other better equipped schools leaving only the poor ones behind.

The Chairman of the School Based Management Committee of CPS Mkpoyi, Mr Bernard Oha, was not available for comments when Southeast Post visited his house in the village but other natives confirmed that he had been doing his best to draw the attention of the authorities over deplorable condition of the school. 

It was however, noticed that the two school buildings on the compound had short but broken walls, and without school desks even as pupils sit on the floor to receive their lessons.

Of all the classes in the school, only those in primaries four to six sit on the long benches usually borrowed from the nearby St Joseph's Catholic Church, Mkpoyi while others take their lessons on the bare but untarred floor. 

A motor mechanic from the area, Chief Michael Agashi said that the CSDP rebuilt one of the school blocks when the one built in 1976 became unusable due to dilapidation, describing as the present condition of the school structures as terrible.