A 65-year-old man, Joseph Ugbene, from Egede in Udi Council Area of Enugu State who completed his junior secondary and took juniour WAEC, recently said he decided to go back to school because his children laughed at him that he did not know how to speak good English. He also said he went back to school to learn the modern way of attending to his poultry farm.
Ugbene who dropped out of school after the Nigeria – Biafra Civil War that ended in 1970, disclosed this during the graduation ceremony of the Adult Education Programme, Egede.
Happy with the opportunity of acquiring education again, Ugbene thanked the Proprietor and Executive Director, Better Life for Rural Dwellers, Mrs Bibian Agada, pointing out that save for the introduction of Adult Education in his community, his dream to acquire basic education which was shattered by the war would have been a mirage.
He also said that poultry farm he is running made it imperative for him to go back to school despite his age, adding “I have poultry farm business I am doing at present and I needed that education to be able to run it effectively.”
He said that: ” I was in class one in secondary school when the civil war broke and after the war things changed, I had no means of going back to school because my father died.
Calling other fathers and Mothers to take advantage of the programme and get themselves educated, Ugbene said that it is free to the extent that books and instruction materials were provided free courtesy of the Better Life for Rural Dwellers.
In address at the occasion, the Proprietor, Mrs Agada, commended Mr Ugbene and eight other graduands for their dexterity, zeal and desire to succeed, which according to her, propelled them to complete their junior secondary education.
Mrs Agada disclosed that the adult education was set up in 2018 in response to the high illiteracy level she observed among the youths in Egede, adding, “I wanted those who dropped out of school to complete their education free of charge.”
