Shame on schools in Nasarawa: GSSS Uke, four Others an eyesore

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From Francis Nansak

Schools in Kari local government area of Nasarawa State are an eyesore, not conducive for learning and inhabitable.

Efforts in any adventure will only be scored excellent when the entire work is hundred percent completed,so it is in any sector untill the entire system is completely transformed beyond the previous standard,such effort can not be adjudged as been perfect.

This is the case with the educational system in Nasarawa state,while some schools through the efforts of the state government and partly the Parents Teachers Association contribution are wearing a modern outlook,many out there are still in the shadow of its old look.

The immediate past administration of the state spent so much in the betterment of education in the state by upgrading infrastructure to meet the standard of education where both teachers ,the pupils and teaching staff will beat their chest of learning and working in an atmosphere that connoted international best practice, but these efforts did not go round in the expectations of people in the grassroots.

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However ,there are hundreds of schools in the state that were remodeled,with others still begging for such opportunity.

A peep in this direction revealed that the Nasarawa state government still needs to give more attention to the development of schools in order to earn the credit of having completed it’s vision of making education a priority ,hence the brag about education being the bedrock of any societal development.

In the Government Secondary School Uke, now Government Special Science Secondary School (GSSS) there is need for basic infrastructure upgrade in order to encourage learning and comfort of the teaching staff.

The school apart from the only storey building which was recently erected 3 years back since it’s establishment in early 80s ,the other structures in the school are begging for renovation if not completely to be pulled down for newer structures to be build.

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One of the heaviest challenges that the school is exposed to is lack of parameters fencing which has encouraged encroachment by some near by residents of the school,who in most cases obstructed academic activities by using the school compound as an access road to their business concern.

The school which was earlier earmarked to be used as the college of medicine, Nasarawa state university due to it’s central location to Keffi where the state university permanent site is situated,was however, preferred as a Special Science School,with not much done to match the standard of its new nomenclature as a science school,with about 500 boarding and day students.

As worrying as the challenges in GSSS Uke,where the present state Minister of Science and Technology passed out from,lacking adequate furniture, the buildings in the school are at deplorable stage,from the classes ,domortories up to the staff quarters ,calls for interventions by the state government in order to improve the standard of the school.

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When contacted the Chairman,Parents Teachers Association (PTA) Alhaji Musa Barau ,said in their effort as the school association,they have ensured only the fencing of the girls hostel,employed security guards and some teachers ,whom they pay from the association’s account.

Alhaji Barau further said they have written to the state Ministry of education severally over the challenges faced by the school,but to no avail, especially demanding the fencing of the school ,now that security challenges takes toll in schools .

Further investigation reveals that the challenges of fencing and inadequate furniture is not perculiar to Government Science Secondary School Uke alone,but at government Secondary School Gunduma,GSS Karu,GSS Bagaji and GSS Saka ,all within Kari local government area of the state are in dear need for infrastructural improvement ,owing to the delapidation of most of the classes that could enable good learning.

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