This was how SS 1 students of Community Secondary School, Ikot Ubok Udon, Nsit Atai LGA in the oil-rich Akwa Ibom wrote their promotional examinations last year.

A State that has received about #4 trillion b/w 2007 to 2020 cannot provide desks in public schools for her students.

As at today, there is no single model public primary or secondary school anywhere in Akwa Ibom State. I once again challenge anyone to prove me wrong.

Most of the public schools in Akwa Ibom have dilapidated with no functional libraries, laboratories and other teaching aids.

Teachers are in short supply. Retired primary school teachers/next-of-kin of late primary school teachers in Akwa Ibom have not been paid pension and gratuity for many years.

Akwa Ibom is one of the richest States in Nigeria but does not have a single standard public school.

Yet, billions of Dollars have been wasted on ill-conceived and ostentatious projects like the acquisition and maintenance of a private jet for the governor, a new governor's lodge in Lagos, ecumenical centre, the abandoned stadium, 21 story building...

abandoned Tropicana Entertainment centre (this alone cost about N120b), abandoned Four Point by Sheraton hotel, a new PDP Secretariat and other useless monuments and white elephant projects, most of which remain uncompleted and abandoned.

Pubpic education has collapsed in Akwa Ibom State.

Fellow Nigerians, this is dividends of democracy - Akwa Ibom style.