Tope Omogbolagun
Following acute shortage of classrooms for students of Government Secondary School in Jedda, Kuje Area Council, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the health centre within the school premises has been converted to classrooms by management.
The improvisation came to the limelight when the facilitator of the Primary Health Care Centre, Senator Philip Aduda, came on project inspection within Kuje and Gwagwalada Area Councils.
The Principal of the School, Mohammed Tanko, told Senator Aduda and journalists that the improvisation was due to a shortage of classrooms for the students.
The action, he explained, was in line with the saying that, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention.”
He said, “Distinguished Senator sir, the management, Staff, and Students of Government Secondary School Jedda are extremely grateful to you for the intervention projects facilitated to the School like the block of six classrooms nearing completion and the already completed primary health care centre which is being temporarily used as classrooms.
“The conversion of the health care centre into classrooms, for now, is temporary pending the completion of a block of six classrooms project.
“As can be practically seen by everybody here, apart from classrooms carved out from the Health Centre, temporary offices for the principal and vice-principal are also carved out, which have to a great extent, kept the school going as far as academic activities are concerned pending the time the appropriate authorities would provide the required infrastructure.”
“We are also very grateful for the provision of the borehole, which has been the main source of water supply for the School.”
Responding, Senator Aduda, admonished the school to make the best use of facilitated projects in the school.
He said, “I am happy that the primary health centre is not being vandalized, but improvised for other very useful purposes. My appeal to the school management is to take adequate care of all the projects or facilities provided.”
Other projects inspected within the two area councils include 3km Angwa Gede Goma Road; 6km Lanto Road solar light in Kuje Area Council; 2.7km Angwadodo Road; functional primary health centre in Paikon Kore with Inverter for 24-hour electricity supply, National Youth Development Centre and 4km Tunga Maje road.
