By AMID the dearth of some basic amenities, excitement filled the air on Monday as personnel of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta brought succour to some primary schools in Warri, Delta State.
Commander NNS Delta, Commodore Abba Muhsin
Led by Commander NNS Delta, Commodore Abba Muhsin, the military personnel donated several items to the schools in line with their peculiar needs.
The multimillion naira items included a slasher machine for cutting grass given to three selected primary schools in Warri and submersible pumping machines.
Pupils of one of the schools
Others were overhead tanks, generating set, overhead tanks, desks, white boards and markers, exercise books for pupils and jotters for teachers.
The lucky schools included Nana Primary School, Ikengbuwa Primary School and Ogiame Primary School, all in Warri, Warri South Local Government Area.
Commander NNS Delta, Commodore Muhsin, made the presentation of the items to the schools.
He said the gesture was in line with the Operation Delta Sanity which was launched to mitigate illegalities in the Ship’s maritime space.
Muhsin said the gesture of NNS Warri Base was predicated on the educational programme codenamed “Free Educational Rhapsody in the Navy” aimed at distributing materials to schools according to their needs.
“We have quite a number of items such as tables and desks, white boards, long slashers, pumping machines, over 1, 000 exercise books, overhead tanks to give out to these primary schools.
“All these items are being given out based on the requests of the needs of the primary schools and not just our invention.
“We reached out to them and enquired what their needs were and from that, we were able to get the items and take them across,” he said.
Commodore Muhsin noted that the beneficiaries were pupils who would be leaders of tomorrow.
Commander NNS Delta, Commodore Abba Muhsin with management of one of the schools
He urged them to be disciplined, diligent and dedicated to their studies.
“The beneficiaries of these items are actually the pupils, young Nigerians that we hope to grow to be leaders of tomorrow.
“And the message we have for them is to be very disciplined, very diligent, very hardworking and to make sure that they put education as the fulcrum of their lives,” he added.
Commander NNS Delta, Commodore Abba Muhsin
The Naval boss, therefore, encouraged the managements of the schools to take ownership of the provision in the area of maintenance.
He assured the teachers that the Navy would continue to encourage them to do their best for the pupils so they can produce the best who can lead Nigeria tomorrow.
Education Secretary, Warri South Local Government Education Authority, Augustina Omatseye, who was at the event, expressed gratitude to NNS Delta for its contributions to the development of education in the local government area.
Head teachers of Nana Primary School, Mawe Mofe; Ikengbuwa Primary School, Okpaghoro and Ogiame Primary School, Mene Patience, all expressed their appreciation to the Nigeria Navy Delta, Warri for the “noble gesture.”
They assured that the items would be put to proper use and adequately maintained for the benefits of their pupils.
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