Ace broadcaster and sports administrator, Effiong Nyong has vowed to revamp education and upgrade essential infrastructure, if elected as governor of Cross River State.
Mr. Nyong who is the African Democratic Congress gubernatorial candidate for Cross River State said the present administration has neglected education, which used to be pride of the people of Cross River State.
“Our plan is to improve the standard of education in the State, without education a nation is going nowhere,” said Nyong in an interview.
“Government schools would be improved upon and private schools would give a template to operate. In the past the People of Cross River were proud that their wards were schooling in Cross River, schools like Hope Waddel and St Patrick come to mind.
“We want people to be proud again that their children are getting quality education. We are going to reintroduce inspectors to make sure things are done right and also make sure we have a reward system so that people will take their jobs seriously.”
He argued that the present governor and his deputy are professors, but worrisomely, they have allowed the educational system to decay.
“It gives you goose pimples. We have professors running the State and education and other facilities are in tatters, they have unnecessarily neglected the sector.
“The State Library is like a war-torn zone. It is like they don’t have interest in developing education. Majority of people have given up and these men do what they like, but we can change things for the better next year.
” We want people to come to Cross River State and learn one or two things about development.”
