Old Students Association Urges Okpebholo to Save School From Total Collapse
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The 1992 set of Old Boys Association of Anglican Grammar School, Igarra, (ANGSIOBA ’92), has called on the Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, to rescue their alma mata from further dilapidation.
They made the call at their 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM), hosted by Professor Emmanuel Ogbomida and Engr. Samuel Akao, in Enwan, Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of the State.
The Old Boys who lamented the poor state of facilities and the alarming rate of encroachment into the school land, called on the Governor Okpebholo to embark on a perimeter fencing of the school land to secure what is left from being further encroached, and also recover what has been wrongly taken from the school.
President of the Association, Clinton Akande, who spoke to the media after the meeting, expressed concern over the decaying facilities in the almost 70 year-old premier Secondary School in the area.
He listed lack of security as one of the manor challenges that has bedeviled the school, which he said has led to the vandalism of classrooms, removal of tiles on the floors of some classrooms, ceilings and window fittings.
Akande however disclosed that a committee set up to interface with the principal, also discovered that the Assembly Hall was in very poor shape without doors, burglar bars and chairs.
“The school is being largely encroached by outsiders. Though we don’t know who they are, so much so that you could see everything inside the school from all the areas they have encroached and built structures
“We are calling on the government of the day to see what can be done to fence the school because it is a capital intensive project and that would help salvage what is left of the land.
“This is a school that has produced high profile personalities across all sectors of life, including a former Vice President of this country, high profile traditional rulers, people in the academia, oil and gas, banking, law and other fields of endeavor.
“This school has the potential to produce more of these and we call on Governor Monday Okpebholo to look into this urgently as part of his efforts to change the narratives in the administration of the state,” Akande said.
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