Bayelsa Govt would not get tired investing in Education ―Commissioner

The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Education, Deacon Markson Fefegha has said that though the Governor Seriake Dickson led Restoration Government has invested massively in the education sector, it would not get tired sustaining the investment, rather in view of the positive returns government would commit more funds to improve literacy level of the people of the state.

He was emphatic that the state can make progress beyond its investment in human capital development, hence our economic growth and development is commensurate with our investment in education.

This, Deacon Fefegha said at the Robert Sunday Iworiso Quiz Competition with participating students drawn from the constitutionally recognised eight Local Government Councils in the state, held at the newly commissioned Ijaw National Academy in Kaiama, Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA of the state.

Fefegha was elated with the display of brilliance and intellectualism by the students which attracted thunderous applauds from the attentive audience inside the academy auditorium.

The Education Commissioner, averred the students were excellent in their presentation of topic, discuss and recapitulation, stressing that government was proud and felt no regret to have invested so much in promoting education in the state.

He noted that accelerated growth and development of states and countries could not be divested from the literacy level of the people, even as he alluded that it was for that reason that Governor Dickson

prioritised investment in education by building the Ijaw National Academy that is ran on government scholarship, Sports Academy and constituencies’ boarding schools.

According to him, the Governor has strategically changed the narrative prior to the inception of his Restoration Government that Bayelsa is an educationally backward state.

Calling on well meaning Bayelsans to join the governor in outlawing ignorance, Fefegha pointed that the progress in the south west geo-political zone could be traced to free education bequeathed by Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

The Commissioner assured of government commitment to support education programme in all discipline gear to liberate the minds of students in the state, on account that the state has a secured future in them.

He, however, noted that today Bayelsans are playing dominant role and occupying sensitive position/officer in government at the federal level and excelling in the private sector because of the power of intellectualism, even as he shared optimism that the future is bright and more leaders would emerge from the state.