Special REPORT: :The tears of Ibotio: How Government Secondary School Ibotio died and took a community’s future with it
Science Lab. Uboho David, Inido Abaikpa & Bassey Blessing In Ibotio and Ndon Ibotio, two oil-bearing villages in Ikpa ibom clan, Mkpat Enin local government area, there is a grief that does not make the news. It is the grief of watching your fathers’ legacy rot away. It is the grief of a once-proud boarding school that produced Akwa Ibom’s best, now reduced to one leaking classroom, palm trees growing through laboratories, and cattle grazing where students once marched during inter-house sports. Surviving classroom This is the story of Government Secondary School Ibotio, formerly, Ibotio and Ndon Secondary School. This is the story of a community that feels forgotten, blacklisted, and buried under 16 years of broken promises. Eteidung Engr. Sunday Gaius Bassey of Ibotio still remembers when the school was the pride of the area. “When I was in secondary school age, our parents built that school. It was fully boarded, with everything. It was one of the n...