ORIE NDU COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL, UBAHA, UMUAWA OHUHU: THE CLASSROOM WHERE TOMORROW WAS MURDERED
By MANDATE 27 GROUP
A Sitting Reps Member Watches Basic Education Die in His Own Ohuhu
Oriendu Community Primary School, Ubaha, Oriendu Ohuhu has been deserted.
Not closed for holiday. Deserted. Decapitated. Roof blown off, walls cracked, blocks fallen, blackboards dead, pupils scattered to farms, teachers posted and reposted to nowhere.
This school is not in Ariam Alala in Ikwuano far away. This school is in Hon Obi Aguocha’s Ohuhu domain. In Oriendu Ohuhu — his home. Under his nose.
If a sitting Reps Member representing Ikwuano Umuahia Federal Constituency cannot, through Federal Legislative Intervention — UBEC, Federal Ministry of Education, Ecological Fund, Constituency Intervention — call for rehabilitation of a basic primary school in his own Ohuhu clan, one wonders what would happen to such facility in Ariam Alala in Ikwuano, or in Old Umuahia?
THIS IS MURDER OF TOMORROW
A primary school is not building. It is tomorrow. When you allow Oriendu Community Primary School, Ubaha to die, you murder tomorrow deliberately. You murder the child who would have become doctor because he had no classroom. You murder the girl who would have become engineer because rain beat her off the school.
And the man whose job is to attract Federal presence — Federal presence that built Federal College of Education, Ofeme in same Ohuhu — cannot attract one block of classrooms to Ubaha?
What a representation. What a love for Ohuhu.
Aguocha tells us on Rapid FM: “I won’t give constituents what I can’t give my children.” Sir, would you give your children Oriendu Community Primary School in its present decapitated state? Would your children sit under a school with no roof in Ubaha?
He tells us of 700 scholarships in tertiary institutions. Good. But who will qualify for tertiary when primary is dead? Scholarship without primary school is building roof without foundation. It collapses.
He does inspection at Amaeke Ibeku and Ofeke Ibeku for cameras. But Oriendu Community Primary School, Ubaha, Oriendu Ohuhu — no inspection. No motion. No picture. Because it does not trend.
THE MELANCHOLY OF OHUHU
Umuakam Nkwoegwu has no light, no road.
Umunemeze Nkwoegwu has no light.
Federal College of Education, Ofeme road is impassable.
Now Oriendu Community Primary School, Ubaha is deserted.
All in Ohuhu. All in the Honourable’s domain.
If Ohuhu is like this under Ohuhu son, what is Ikwuano? If Oriendu classroom is decapitated, what is Ariam Alala? If Ubaha children have no school, what will Old Umuahia children have?
Federal legislative intervention is simple: Write UBEC. Capture Oriendu in budget. Use Federal constituency project to rebuild. Call NDDC. Call SEDC. One classroom block. Six classrooms. Toilets. Fence. That is representation.
But no. Representation is speech in Atlanta about Igbo Renaissance while Renaissance in Ubaha is dead.
Ndi Ohuhu are not asking for big grammar. Ndi Oriendu Ohuhu are asking: rebuild Oriendu Community Primary School, Ubaha. Let our children return to classroom.
When a lawmaker cannot save a primary school in his own village cluster, he has lost moral right to ask for second term to save Federal Constituency.
Tomorrow is being murdered in Ubaha. And the Representative is busybodying in Ofeke Ibeku.
Who will save tomorrow?
Rt Hon Chinedum Enyinnaya Orji is the answer come 2027.
Mandate 27 Group
….When primary school dies, tomorrow dies with it.
