Monrovia – The Chief Executive Officer of Geeteah Security Service, Alex Geeplay Kayee wants the Government of Liberia and educational stakeholders to improve primary (elementary) education in the Country.
Report by Gerald C. Koinyeneh – [email protected]
Mr. Kayee, serving as guest speaker at the 17th closing and graduation exercises of the Royal Family Academy (Elementary and Junior High} on Sunday, July 9 in Sinkor, described primary education as the most important aspect of a child’s educational journey and a foundation on which a country’s educational system is built.
“I would like to use this occasion to call on the National Government to pay more attention to the education system of this country,” he urged.
“As the government’s learning institutions cannot accommodate every school going child in our country,” Kayee.
“I am appealing to the government to use every meager resource at her disposal to give subsidies to the private institutions that are helping in molding the minds of our young generation.
The Geeteah Security Service boss, speaking on the theme “Why Elementary Education is Important,” noted that the continuous mass failure of Liberian students in public tests like the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams and University entrances could be due to the lack of a proper elementary education foundation.
Addressing students, he admonished them to take their lesson seriously and desist from activities that would distract them from their studies.
“Education is keeping in mind what you have learned, holding onto it, exhibiting it, and passing it over to the next generation. Education that has no impact is not education.
Children, please leave the video clubs; stop focusing on the European football leagues. Put in more time to your lessons.
Read books and good magazines. Leave Facebook and the posting of photos, as they do not have any impact on your educational process,” he admonished.
Speaking further, Mr. Kayee warned that Liberia is slowly heading for disaster as the number of stray youth (called zogos) continues to increase rapidly and nothing is being done to address their plights.
He blamed the situation on the lack of proper care and educational opportunities and made a rallying call on the government and the society to step in and take pragmatic actions to stop what he described as this cancerous virus.
“Our nation is perishing slowly. Our young generation is going down the drain.”
“They are turning into drug addicts because parents cannot afford to send their children to school, and those who have don’t care to give a helping hand to those who don’t have,” he intoned.
“It is time that we wake up as a government and people to put in place the proper mechanisms that will stop this cancerous virus that is eating the fabric of our nation.”
“No nation can succeed without an educated generation.”
Meanwhile, with less than 90 days to the Presidential and Legislative elections, Kayee is calling on Liberians to make the right choice:.
“The fate of Liberia for the next six or twelve years is in our hands. It is left with us come October 10 to make the right decision.”
“The choice we make on that day will decide the future of our country and that of our children.”
He then donated LD$40,000 to the students including the dux of the school as a contribution toward their schooling for the next academic year.
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