Hope Waddell SS3 graduates dupe parents N3500 to sendforth themselves at Transcorp Hotels —Principal

Efio-Ita Nyok|22 August 2017 

Unconfirmed reports reaching us has it that unidentified Senior Secondary 3 graduands of the prestigious Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar popularly called HOWAD are enmeshed in a financial scandal and licentious behavior. 

At 11 minutes past 8PM of 19th August, the principal of the Presbyterian Church managed-HWTI, Calabar, Prince Samuel Ikpeme, took to his social media account to register his displeasure at the news of his just graduated SS3 students hoodwinking their parents the sum of N3500 to send-forth themselves at Transcorp Hotels, Calabar under the guise of the school authority sanctioning it. 

Principal Ikpeme queried why the graduands will dupe their parents of such a sum in the name of the school authority, why parents of the graduands where that naive, why the hotel admitted these graduands without recourse to the school authority, etc. 

His words, ‘I am yet to see reasons why my just graduated SS3 students from Hope Waddell Calabar should deceived their innocent parents and collect N3500 each and organised a sendforth for themselves in Transcorp Hotel under the guise that the school authorised them to do so when the school authority did not have any wind of that development. Parents know that any sendforth in Hope Waddell Training Institution Calabar is always performed after the general house of the PTA ratifies the date and every enabling arrangement. We are yet to do that. 

‘I want explanation from parents why they should be so permissive  and insensitive to the future of their young kids. How can a caring parent fail a prey to this undignified gimmick and manoevre without making any findings from the school?’

He pegged the responsibility on the parents while querying the rationale of Transcorp Hotels, Calabar:

‘If we all run our homes this way how will our society look like? Is it fair for your own son to make u borrow money to buy a pair of suit, a pair of shoes, a bow tie and a packet shirt with some cash given to attend an illicit send-forth party that his school principal does not know about. 

‘How reasonable is it for a corporate outfit like Transcorp Hotel to collect money from juveniles whom they know have just left secondary school and grant them the use of their facilities for a party without contacting their school principal or even finding out how they raised the money.’

It must have been a saddening experience for the principal who obviously exonerated his training institution of culpability:

‘It is indeed sad and dis-heartening’.