Delta Community With 1 Teacher To 170 Pupils Decries Govt Neglect

Residents of Ikpide-irri, Isoko South local government area of Delta State, have expressed frustration over the negligence of the area.

Their frustration may not be unconnected to a situation where Okugbe Primary School, Ikpide-irri, has just only one teacher teaching over 170 pupils and how the locals go as far as Bayelsa State for medical attention.

Last year, the community lost a pregnant woman during labour while rushing her to Kaiama in Bayelsa State where every local goes for health care.

Ikpide-irri is an agrarian community, which specialises in the production of farm produce such as yams, plantains, peppers and cassava to guarantee food security in the state.

A group in the community christened the Concerned Indigenes of Ikpide-Irri Development (CIID), had on Monday, August, 26, 2024 paid a courtesy visit on the chairman of Isoko South local government council, Comrade Friday Warri, and appealed to him to extend dividends of democracy to their community.

In a speech presented by Comrade Obruozie Odiuzou on behalf of CIID, flanked by the ex-president general of Ikpide-irri Progress Union and leader of the delegation, Chief Joseph Ubeleke, CIID had complained about lack of teachers in the primary school, and non-functional health care centres, solar street lights, water and markets, among other amenities.

He noted that Ikpide-Irri riverine community is one of the largest communities of Irri clan/kingdom that has not gotten its fair share of social amenities from the three tiers of government.

Meanwhile, the council chairman, Comrade Friday Warri, expressed shock during an unscheduled visit to the school and the community to assess dilapidated social amenities in the locality.