CR-SUBEB Chairman Dr Stephen Odey |
By Paul Ojeka
To every success, there is a secret. The case of Cross River State Universal Basic Education Board, under the effective management of Barr. Stephen Odey Ph D speaks loudly in support of this truism, and the secret of the giant strides in the board is as open as the Newspaper: First, there is a governor who believes in having square pegs in square holes. Secondly, there is a veteran administrator, in charge of administration, whose dedication to his duty is unparalleled. His passion about achieving results without profligacy by creating potent personal solution architecture to issues of administration, attracts votes of confidence on his unequalled dynamic leadership skill.
The renowned breathtaking strides he has recorded and sustained so far, from 2015 to 2019, can be traced to his effectiveness and efficiency in deploying his supervisory role in schools, uncovering problems militating against effecting teaching and learning, then proffering solutions to them. Personnel audit has helped immeasurably in closing financial leakages as this financial management skill as an administrative mechanism, has facilitated the uncovering of a huge number of ghost workers, saving huge amount of money to support the execution of projects in the basic education sector. In discovering dearth of school needs, be has built as well as renovated schools across the 18 Local government areas of the state; furnished the schools with learning materials, supplied sports facilities and equipments to develop the learners in their the triple Domains of learning: the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. In educational management, one way of motivating workers is through extrinsic and intrinsic rewards. In view of this well measured and scientific means of encouraging the teaching workforce who are key implementers of the curriculum, he places their welfare on the front burner of his "scale of preference" by paying them promptly and regularly.
Behind the achievements of all these numerous breathtaking capital intensive projects, there is an amazing secret: there is on one side, the Governor's unwavering support in form of ideas, and principally his ever ready disposition in providing counterpart funds to access Intervention Funds from UBEC - this forms the secret of all secrets. Without counterpart funding, access to funds to execute any project in SUBEB will be as tasking as the task of a Camel attempting to pass through the eye of the needle!
While it may be right to state that the chairman of the board is doing his normal job, it is worth commending that he is doing ordinary things in an extraordinary manner; thus, achieving extraordinary results. For example, in a football event, if a team performs well, they receive cheers and accolades to motivate them: This is why this note is written to enjoin all and sundry to appreciate the efforts of this crackerjack administrator who has adopted meritorious service delivery as his second nature and has achieved so much in his reformation and transformation agenda in Cross River SUBEB, in a bid to encourage him to stay on his path of great service delivery which will serve as catalyst to others to rise to their responsibilities, so as to be heard too. It is my belief that he'll serve as a model to raise the Quality of administrators that we direly need in all socioeconomic sectors in Cross River State, for result oriented service delivery. If we had a leader of this quality at the Federal Ministry of Education, then Nigeria will be witnessing a rebirth of the education sector, through robust transformation of the sector, raising school products as true agents of technological breakthrough.
Finally, it is pertinent to recap that Cross River State under the administration of sen prof Ayade Benedict is witnessing tremendous breakthrough in educational technology, socioeconomic development and global fame courtesy of Ayade's confidence in the capacity of the wealth of human resource in the state and his dynamic skill in skillfully placing them to function in their appropriate areas of strength.
The mother of all the secrets behind the humongous success story of Dr. Stephen Odey of Cross River State SUBEB is his Wisdom to find and deploy Supervision as a secret tool to school management.
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