Authorities of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta have donated items worth several millions of naira to three selected primary schools in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The items included submersible pumping machine, slasher machine, head tanks, generating set, jacking water pump and large quantity of exercise books for pupils and jotters for teachers.
The Executive Officer of the NNS Delta, Navy Captain Solomon Paul, led navy personnel to present the items on behalf of Commodore Abba Muhsin, the Commander, NNS Delta.
The beneficiary schools included the Olodi Primary School, Cavegina Primary School and Ojojo Primary School all in Warri South.
Commodore Muhsin, while addressing journalists, said the gesture was in line with the Operation Delta Sanity set up to stem illegalities in the maritime space.
“In line with the Operation Delta Sanity, an anti-crude oil operation launched by the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) in January 2024, the Nigerian Navy (NN) directed all units under Operation Delta Sanity to also include some non-kinetic approaches into our fight against illegalities in our waters.
“Today, NNS Delta chooses to conduct Educational Rhapsody. We took time to identify some schools in our immediate environment and asked the schools for their immediate needs before taking further steps to address them,” he said.
Muhsin noted that the donation was part of the NNS Delta’s contribution to learning in its immediate communities and urged the teachers to ensure the pupils excel.
“That is why in those exercise books, we itemised crimes within the society that will keep ringing in the heads of the pupils.
“When they keep reading, they will stay away from kidnapping, drug abuse, cultism, stealing and be of good behaviour,” he said.
The commodore urged the pupils to study hard and become useful to their parents and the society.
In his remarks, Dr Ejiro Kelvin from the Warri South Local Government Area Education Authority thanked the NNS Delta for the donations, describing the gesture as laudable.
“We are proud to see this kind of things coming to our schools. Other NGOs and organisations should emulate the Navy to address some of the challenges in our public schools.
“Government cannot do it alone. By partnering other organisations, things will be better.
“All social vices going on in the country can be captured in the primary schools. I thanked NNS Delta for the gesture they extended to our schools,” Kelvin said.
Head teacher of Olodi Primary School, Mrs Cecilia Uwarebaye, thanked the NNS Delta for the donation and promised that teachers will give the pupils the best of learning.
“I am overwhelmed as the head of this school. I thanked the NNS Delta for choosing our schools among the beneficiaries.
“The teachers will not teach the pupils what is not good for them. The children shall go home with something that will better their future,” she assured.
A pupil of Ojojo Primary School, Miss Mary Praise thanked the NNS Delta on behalf of her school.
Praise said that she had learnt that cultism, kidnapping, drug abuse and other crimes, as encapsulated in the exercise books, are bad.
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