CORRECT REPLY OF PROF. BEN ONYEUKWU TO EDIFY COORDINATOR

Mr Uche Nwaekpe,

National Secretary of AFED

and Coordinator Edify Programmes in Nigeria.

My name is Prof Ben Onyeukwu, founder/proprietor of Crown Scientific Seminary of Nigeria (CSSN) International Schools Limited. 

Dear Uche,

   I'm glad to see your shaky clarifications on the GRANT-LOAN controversy of the Edify group. In your assertion you posited that you never talked of GRANT, but soft loan. But, I'm sure in your official capacity as the Coordinator of the Edify programmes in Nigeria, the first time I heard you talked of Soft Loan was at Tripod Hotel, where you made mentioned of Soft Loan, which will be repayable from three years. If I may ask, where is that promise? Why is the soft loan not obtainable today? And, why are we now talking of loan with harsh conditions?

   Prior to the Tripod Hotel programmes, the hopeless hope of GRANT had been very must talked about. The question now is, who introduced the concept of GRANT, without your notice? Was it from other members of Edify team? Or whether is from AFED officials, who may have dangled the GRANT menu, as a BAIT to lure the unsuspecting proprietors to your programme? This is subject to your investigation. For, as a matter of concrete findings, over 80% of the people that attended your programmes came with the illusion of the so called GRANT. You can also find out!

   Furthermore, if the Soft Loan thing came, as late as the time of the Tripod Hotel programme, don't you think, it was an administrative lapse, on your part, to have not started talking of soft loan from the very beginning of the training, or that you knew about the GRANT saga, but allowed it to thrive, as a way of sustaining your desired attendance target. And, don't you equally think that, your present analysis which seeks to portray Edify Nigeria's loan as the LOWEST, which is not true, was deliberately delayed, or rather a hidden agenda , to trap uninformed proprietors into what they don't really understand.

   Finally, your citation of people in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Ogun State, to have today, taken advantage of Edify Loan, while people (probably like me), are busy talking of GRANT, shows you do not really know the target audience of the Edify Nigeria programme. I am sure, the main target audience for the Edify Loan, are the low income school proprietors. So, talking of people in the aforementioned cities or State, as today's beneficiaries of the loan, certainly shows that, you are misfiring. I put it to you, by dint of what is in the menu of the Edify Loan today, no low income proprietor in the hinterland or villages in Imo State or elsewhere, which the loan is meant for, can afford the service. If, it is so, what then, is the relevance of the whole exercise?