ALIYU ABDULMALIK AHMAD
BAYERO UNIVERSITY KANO
MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
I am writing this article base on the moral decadence I bear witness to in one of the numerous private schools littered around in our society today. A friend of mine currently facing the problem of result deficiency –and in need of a re-taking of SSCE, registered his interest in a private school in our neighborhood. At the moment of writing this article, he has written three papers, most of which I escort him to the venue. It is already clear, the school being a private school and hence in no direct support of the government, that the students should fend for themselves in all ways open to them. But the extent to which the laxity has reached is beyond imagination –considering the religious sanctity and moral chastity of Kano and its moderate environ.
Among the early issues that attracted my attention, was the imminent disregard from the teachers towards the habits and attitudes of their students –you’d expect a teacher, being a guide to students into the dizziness and dinghy characteristics of life and living, to at least keep a watch over the students whose care and control has been entrusted to him. ALAS!! Nay! What my eyes were bearing witness to was the reverse.
The issue that prompted me into writing this article happened the day students were sitting for mathematics; precisely on the 28th of April, 2009. Mathematics being a hard-core subject and generally considered as the danger zone to most students, the day was characterized as befits the paper to be taken. According to mu friend who was partaking in the examination, most of the girls taking that paper were into a kind of arrangement with the teachers, invigilators or students as the case may be, for a form of assistance or other. He was very certain that the consideration coming from the part of such female candidates to seal up such arrangements would no doubt be their pride, i.e. offer themselves to their helpers. You can even see it plainly right there in the exam hall, because some of them were even brazen about it to the extent that it made him sick with anger and frustration.
I caught on to such exuberance that day as I came to pick him up. The female candidates were grossly engaged with such helpers heading to ‘God knows where’. I had to ask my friend whether there was a match-making exercise between sexes because the atmosphere was charged and you can feel the impending intent at fornication. This was what made him vomited his discoveries. He was so furious that he had to call the societal re-orientation framework set up by the present government ‘A Daidaita Sahu’, and lodged in his complaint. His effort was of course futile. “There is nothing they can do about it”, was what they told him, “especially the school being a privately owned and operated”.
I write this article to you in hope that you may be able to fit it into one of your numerous community-oriented programs so that our society (especially the elites, who are easily lured by their wish to have their children well educated) be awakened to the atrocities and felonies going on under the disguise of “efficient” private schools.
Thank you very much.
Aliyu A Ahmad
First Bank of Nigeria Plc,
Kano Airport Branch.
08066498079 or 064-922370
alinamadu@yahoo.co.uk or Aliyu.a.ahmad@firstbanknigeria.com
