BAA NATIONAL PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CALM OVER PETITION AGAINST BRISTOW PRINCIPAL.
The BAA National President, Dr. Msugh Gbila has appealed to BAA members to exercise calm over the petition written against the Principal of our alma mater, Bristow, Mr. Jen Adzor Jen by the Chairman, Bristow Classis, Rev. Mathew Vanen Chiangi and Chairman, School Management Committee/Pastor in charge, NKST Bristow Church, Rev. Ezra Igba Gbiligh as the issue has been resolved.
According to the National President, the petition did not represent the position of NKST Synod nor NKST Education Department hence, the NKST Synod referred it back to the school Governing Council where it was resolved that the status quo be maintained since the allegations were not adequately substantiated.
The National President appreciates the interest and concern of BAA members and the general public over matters that affect our alma mater, Bristow. He appeals to members to kindly refrain from further comments over the matter and allow peace a chance. Any further inquiries should be directed to the BAA National Secretariat.
Let’s Go Bristow!
ORJIME Igbakura,
BAA National P.R.O.
15/01/2025.
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RE: BAA NATIONAL PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CALM OVER PETITION AGAINST BRISTOW PRINCIPAL
I have read the appeal by the BAA president to BAA members to be calm over the petition written by the reverends against the Bristow principal, as the matter has been resolved.
Whilst thanking him and the others who used back channels to resolve this particular matter, may I say that the matter itself, the bigger picture of it, is far from being resolved, and it may be in the interest of all to understand the context, and this call for calm in other perspectives as well.
As it has been said, ‘the devil goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom to destroy’, NKST that I know well enough will not rest until Bristow goes the way of other NKST institutions. This, in my opinion, hardly calls for calm but, in my view, should be a call to ‘be sober and vigilant’ because NKST do not rest. This is not the end of it. I will cite a few of numerous instances to underscore the point and leave it:
A little over two decades ago, the board of governors, NKST, Benue State Government, et al, all agreed, and it was resolved and documented, that the correct initials of the missionary pilot, William Muckle Bristow, in honour of whom the school was named, are ‘WM’ not ‘NKST’, and that the name ‘NKST Bristow Secondary School, Gboko’ is a misnomer. The accurate name, therefore is and should be ‘WM Bristow Secondary School, Gboko’. Resolved and settled as this was, we are back to square one where NKST insists on referring to the school as ‘NKST Bristow Secondary School, Gboko’. They do not stop.
Second, the immediate past pastor of NKST Church Bristow left hurriedly and under very unclear circumstances, but not unconnected to his overreach on matters pertaining to the school. His successor knows, or reasonably ought to know this well enough, and yet this has not stopped him from playing with fire. They do not stop.
Today, NKST may purport to have rejected the petition written by the reverends but in the long term may be cooking something up underneath or be plotting to install stooges as principal and vice principals tomorrow when the the present principal is no longer there, as they have done and temporarily succeeded in the past. They never stop.
If Uavande Girls’ Secondary School is still alive today, it is on life support, but clearly a shadow of itself. As for NKST College, Mkar (formerly Teachers’ College (TC) Mkar) it is dead and gone for good! The true character of NKST, which I should know well enough, is that they will only rest when WM Bristow Secondary School goes the way of the others. I hardly think this calls for ‘calm’. A word to the wise is enough.
To be sure, and for emphasis, this opinion expressed here in no way seeks to counter the request of the respected BAA president. The perceptive reader would understand that this is adding perspective to his call.
Thank you.
SESUGH AKUME
4825/Class of 1995