PRINCIPAL: Good morning students, today’s assembly will be very brief, we are not going to waste time, because all agric. students will have to go for re- registration as earlier discussed.
After this, I would like to meet with the President and Secretary of Agric. Students Association.
I think my points are clear.
STUDENTS: Yes sir.
PRINCIPAL: Please, listen attentively, I don’t need to remind you, that, today ends the grace I gave you regarding your school fee and other sundry bills , payment will be taking till the close of school today. So, if any of you is still owning after today, such student should not come to school on Monday.
With my announcement here today, I am only reminding you of what to do when you get home, you need to tell your parents or guardians about the mood of the principal and school authority, as it affects school fees payment.
Am I talking?
STUDENTS: Yes Sir.
PRINCIPAL: Immediately, we leave the assembly, all Agric Students should see the Agric. teacher, Mr Ola Jebutu, for their re- registration, which is very compulsory.
The aim of the registration is to know those who are ready for Agric. proper, not classroom agric. students, as it used to be.
The president and Secretary of Agric Students Association, should not forget to see me, first thing after assembly on Monday morning, with ,if only you are the ones holding these positions by Monday morning ,if not ,I would have to wait for new election to be conducted.
Happy weekend in advance, and thanks for listening.
PRESIDENT,AGRIC. STUDENTS ASSOCIATION:
Good Morning Sir, we are here to see you as requested by you on Friday Sir.
We are happy to tell you that all the executives, scaled through the re- registration process Sir.
The questions Mr. Jebutu asked were not many, they were short and very direct. Among other things, he told us that there is going to be a rejig of our Agric. Syllabus, where by 80 percent of our classes will be practical. Besides, each student will be allocated two plots of land to plant crops or do animal husbandry, the choice of crops and animals will be dictated by the school authority, since , according to him, all our harvests from these farms, first, will be dedicated to school feeding, students living in the hostels and lunch for our day students, thereafter, the excess will be sold in our town’s market.
Sir, the real Agric. Students are now known, after the process, and in due course, I will bring them to you for your words of encouragement and advise.
PRINCIPAL: Thank you, Mr. President, I am happy, you and your Secretary scaled through, the re- registration process.
Our position in this school is to align with the new policies of the new Sheriff in town, especially, the policy that will help contribute to the well-being of our School, the Students, and that will ultimately uplift the economy of our town.
We won’t mind, even if we are going to be the only School, in this area, what is more interesting in all this, is that the era of students, grounded in only Agric. theory is over.
An Agric. student will pass out, and won’t be able to explain how Cassava or Yam is being cultivated. Yet, such students would have scored As and Bs in the subject.
We have a lot of Agric. experts out there, yet our food security position is scary. They are only comfortable in offices, doing nothing, and when people discuss, you will think the only food on planet earth is rice.
In our own little way, from this corner, we want to change the narrative, we want the renewed hope in Agric. to succeed, though, we have missed it before now ,this is another chance for us to be counted.
All our preparations must be geared toward next term, we must succeed.
President, together with your secretary, go and tell your members, there is a need for new focus, hard work because we want to be food sufficient in this School come next term. Charity, they say, begins at home, let’s feed ourselves here. If that is the only thing we can do, we would have been able to contribute our own quota to this town’s food security.
I pray other principals around see this renewed hope in Agric . as a clarion call, for self-salvation from hunger.
“Ebi npawa o!” God, may we never be part of this dehumanising song of disgrace.
O to ge, enough is enough.
PRESIDENT: Thank you Sir, I am promising you here now, me, other executives, and the Association in general, is ready for the task ahead. This, l know, We won’t disappoint, like you said Sir, ‘O to ge’.
Thank you.
