By Sarah NEGEDU
Students of Government Secondary School, Kabusa, can now heave a sigh of relief, as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has directed the immediate rehabilitation and upgrade of their school.
The minister who was at the permanent site of the school to flag-off the construction of a 9.8-kilometre road from Kabusa to Takushara, expressed his dissatisfaction with the state of the school and ordered an immediate rehabilitation of the facility.
He described the block of one-storey building school as unfit to deliver quality education to students and assured residents of the area that the school would be upgraded to be able to offer quality education to the children.
Wike explained that the school would be rehabilitated and upgraded under emergency, to a standard school that the FCT Administration would be proud of.
“Is this a school? I will not lie to you; I will not accept this as a school for our children to have quality education. I am, therefore, directing immediate upgrading of the school for our children to get the best of education,” he said.
The minister also warned against bringing out school children to line up under the sun just to welcome him.
“It is not in our culture, and this will be the last time to see this happen. Nobody should bring students out of their school to line up on the road. We will not accept that any longer.
“We will not accept where our students are subjected to line up on the street to receive us. I want to please appeal to the principals of all our schools not to allow that to happen. Our children deserve the best,” he said.
He directed his Chief of Staff, Mr Chidi Amadi, to work with the Director of Procurement, FCTA, to work out modalities for the rehabilitation of the school.
