The Sokoto State
Committee on the Implementation of State of Emergency in Education, has
discovered 200 sets of furniture locked up at a school where students sit
on bare floor for lessons.
Daily
Trust report continues:
A
statement issued by Imam Imam, spokesman to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, said the
discovery was made during an assessment visit to Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial
Secondary School, Sokoto.
It
said: “Only a few classes in the school have enough seats to accommodate them.
“For
long, they have to put up with taking lectures while seated on bare floor.
“Most
use prayer mats to protect their white tops from the floor’s dust, while others
come to classes with extra wrappers to spray on floor as they sit.
“While
they have to put up with the most uncomfortable situation to take lectures
daily, a few blocks away, 200 sets of classroom furniture were locked away,
unattended to, and left to rot away.”
It
said that, the suffering of the students came to an end last week when the
committee went to assess facilities and make recommendations to remedy
identified problems.
The
statement added that the team leader, Dr Shadi Sabeh, immediately ordered that
the furniture be arranged in the class rooms, and admonished the school
management to always prioritize the need of the students.
It said that school managers must, henceforth, key into the new vision of government for better schools, so as not to sabotage its efforts.
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