Thread by @YeremiAkpan

So Sapele LGA boss found our "v
Viral Video Success" and offered her a scholarship and cash gift to her mum. Nice! My question is, how does that help other children in the same school who were not fortunate enough to stumble on a relentless interviewer? #Thread.

I saw pictures of the classroom Success learns from and I wept. Sapele is an oil producing area. Where does the 13% oil revenue derivation cash go?

What do children need to do to get an education?

Not every child has the temperament or charisma needed to pull off a viral video of that nature.

And even if they all did, do children need to put themselves out there to get what should be a fundamental right?

It is shameful that the Sapela LGA boss could present himself before cameras, clearly not getting it that the rant of Success was directed towards him as the superintendent of that LGA.

In his hurry to rub off on the shine of Success' moment in the spotlight, he failed to see that the joke was on him.

He could not tell us how it was that in a government school, children are made to return home for not having paid their school fees. What happened to UBE?

Do you notice that he did not query the system that allowed children to learn in classrooms that look like dilapidated animal pens?

He did not issue a call to action, or declare of State of Emergency for basic education in the LGA.

No.

All he did was offer some placebos...

And hope that this too will pass.

And in that response lies the problem with Nigeria.

We poke at issues on the surface, and leave the putrefaction and rottenness to continue to fester inside.

Other officials who have visited success include the leader, Sapele 5th Legislative Arm, Hon. Adibor Igho, Majority Leader of the House Hon. Venture Kagbude, CIE, Mrs Patience Ishegbe, Chief Press Secretary to Sapele LGA Chairman, Sir Tagbarha Malcolm amongst others...

All promising to sponsor Success' education (the symptom), without addressing the decay in the education sector (the ailment).

No one has undertaken to renovate those classrooms.

No heads are rolling that school children are being flogged for the failure of parents to pay their school fees.

(Yes, from the comments Success made, it is clear that she had been repeatedly flogged, and when that did not produce the fees, the school decided to change strategy and send her home).

And what is the place of the community in all of this?

It is one thing to point fingers at the government, but are other stakeholders doing their bit?

Is it out of place for community members to fund education in their communities?

When there are private mansions all over the place, and the children of the poor school in such environments, our wealth becomes a malaise.

When we fund private jet lifestyles of pastors, and cannot contribute to build a classroom block in a school in our community, who we epp?