Elioparanwo community in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers has appealed to the state government to build a secondary school in the area. Prince Amadi Chika, former Caretaker Committee Chairman, Elioparanwo Community Development Committee (CDC), made the call in Port Harcourt in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Chika said the call had become necessary in order to alleviate the problem of children from the community who covered long distances to attend nearby school. He said if government built a secondary school in the community, their children and wards would no longer spend so much on transport to attend schools.

“ Youths of secondary school age suffer to attend classes. We have also observed that some parents relocated from the community because we do not have a secondary school. “ Our community, therefore, pleads with the state government to build a secondary school for us to save our children from the inconveniences caused them by not having one,“ he said.

The caretaker committee chairman, however, commended the state government for completing the 3.5-kilometre road linking the community to other parts of the state. “The access road has indeed opened our community to investments and other opportunities. “Our farmers now sell their produce with ease and no longer suffer in taking them outside the community to sell. “Also, our community has been saved from the yearly flood which resulted from bad roads and lack of drains,” he said.