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Sokoto school authorities hoard sets of furniture while students sit on bare floor

Sokoto school authorities hoard sets of furniture while students sit on bare floor

Students of Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto have, for a long time, been made to sit on the bare floor of their classrooms while several sets of furniture, for unknown reasons, were locked away in a store by the school authorities.

It only took the intervention of the Sokoto State Committee on the Implementation of State of Emergency in Education which was on an assessment of the school last week to come to the students’ rescue.

“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,” a statement issued by Imam Imam, spokesman to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal said.

“Most use prayer mats to protect their white tops from the floor’s dust, while others come to classes with extra wrappers to spread on the floor.

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“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.”

While the statement said that team leader, Dr. Shadi Sabeh, immediately ordered that the furniture be arranged in classrooms, and admonished the school management to always prioritise the need of students, it is an appalling act of callousness from the school authorities that should have grave consequences.

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