"I decided to go to school at this age because I
perpetually feel the pain of being an illiterate in this modern world where
everything has to do with English and education. I also do not want a situation
whereby someone else would interprete or write for me if eventually I am chosen
to hold an office in my community,”
“I
am sixty years now and the reason why I decided to go to school at this age is
because I perpetually feel the pain of being an illiterate in this modern world
where everything has to do with English and education. My mother died during
childbirth when I was a little boy, while my father was a hunter. I was raised
by a grandmother after the death of my mother and later taken to a step-mother
when my father remarried.
“I went through discomfort and
hardship from my tender age to adulthood. It would interest you to know that I
was so tender at the time my mother died that I was crying for food while she
laid dead. I went through struggles all through my life. I was opportune to go
to school at my young age, when a relative, who was a magistrate at Ekeremor in
Bayelsa State, took me to his house, but because of early morning beatings due
to my failure to greet him when rising from bed, I fled back to my father.
I had no opportunity to go to school since
then, and continued doing menial jobs to survive, which I am still doing.
” On his decision to return to school at
his old age, he said
“I realized that without education one cannot do
well in this present society. I also do not want a situation whereby someone
else would interprete or write for me if eventually I am chosen to hold an
office in my community.” Makes a living pushing wheelbarrow Seribor, who also
explained how he managed to combine his studies and work, “I am a truck-pusher.
After school hours, I go back home to look for work to do, which I have been
doing to earn a living. I pay my school fees from there. I am determined to
complete my education because of the pains in my heart. Have come to realise
that one cannot do well without education in this society. I do all type of
menial jobs for a living: I pack dirt from gutters, I pack sand, clear grasses
in people’s compounds and pack soak away faeces in the dead of the night. I am
a JSS II student and by the grace of God I will finish from this school.”
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