Students Sit on Bare Floors in Kano Public Schools, Commissioner  Laments

Ahmad Sorondinki in Kano

Kano State Commissioner for Education, Umar Haruna Doguwa has lamented that many primary and secondary schools in Kano lack furniture, appropriate infrastructure and other resources, as students sit in bare floors in some of public schools. The Commissioner made the observation during an unscheduled inspection of some selected public secondary schools in Kano yesterday.

He described the free education policy of the immediate past administration in the state as fundamentally flawed, thus, not capable of yielding positive results especially in the area of education.

“The fact that many primary and secondary schools in the state lack furniture, appropriate infrastructure and other resources, as well as a poor boarding schools feeding plan, among other things, indicated that the policy was indisputably defective,” he said.

“At G.G.A.S.S Tumfafi, Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, the students were congested in the classes and seated on bare floors, as nine out of the 16 classes had no furniture at all, while the rest had only a few chairs and
desks”

The school, with 1,808 students, has 21 teachers. A block of classrooms, initiated in the school by Tumfafi community was left abandoned, a project which the Commissioner promised to complete, as it would help in decongesting some classes.

At Government Technical College Dambatta, Doguwa, who was visibly sad lamented “that for nearly five years, the past administration failed to renovate the college’s four destroyed hostels, forcing the 530 students to reside in stuffy conditions in two hostels, which are also begging for reconstruction.”

He, however, promised to reconstruct the colleges’ rear fence which collapsed a long time ago, making it vulnerable to all forms of insecurity.

The commissioner urged IDEAS, a World Bank funded project working to improve infrastructure in science and technical schools in the state, whose project official was present during the visit, to focus on renovating the shattered hostels.