THE POWER OF CORRECTION

If anyone thinks that the war against illiteracy in the country is being won the person should have a rethink.

This is because many are not literate simply because they did not have formal education but because people around them do not correct their mistakes and so they take such mistakes to be right.

Imagine where a word is wrongly spelt in a conspicuous inscription on the perimeter fence of a big business premises and it has been there for over five years uncorrected.

That is the situation at the popular Koka filling station Asaba, on the Benin/Onitsha Expressway, now under the name J. O. EBENIGHE & Co. LTD

The owner did not want people to urinate in the premises and so he called an artist to write DO NOT URINATE HERE, FINE N1000.

The artist rather than do what he was paid to do wrote DO NOT UNIRATE HERE, FINE N1000.

For as long as this mistake has been there, neither the owner of the filling station nor his staff have spotted it and not even the customers or the high human traffic that has made the station a thorough fare.

The lessons : 
We should always monitor every job or assignment given to people to ensure that they meet our expectation and standard.

We should not close our eyes to mistakes or errors made by omission or commission in our environment because they do not add to learning or knowledge.

A pupil who wrongly spells a word in school is usually guided by his or her teacher to make correction and in the process advance learning.

This should be the focus of every Nigerian if we must get things right.