Outrage in Kogi as four teachers teach from JSS 1 to SS3 in GSS Agbaja

By Adeleye Kunle

Government Secondary School Agbaja under Lokoja Local Government area of Kogi State was established in 1975 when Kogi State was still under old Kwara.

Track News reports that the school, which has a huge land mask with infrastructures, is now a shadow of itself. The school infrastructure is currently in a dilapidated form as it has little or no government presence.

It was gathered that the environment of the school is not habitable for learning hence members of staff deployed to the school either for teaching or non-teaching fail to stay as they abscond to Lokoja, the Kogi State capital or go as far as working out their way out of the school for another place of work.

“Many Teachers have been posted to this community. Whenever they come here, see the community, they will run away. This has become a recurring trend. None of them is willing to stay. Virtually 98 percent of them will work their way back to Lokoja or prefer to work somewhere else.

“This has really affected the development of the Agbaja community educationally and many more. We have complained severally to the constituted authority, but it has all fallen on deaf ears,” an indigene of Agbaja Community, Adoga said.