Students sit on bare floor as adminstrator locks away furniture

Respite came the way of students of Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto, when the state government restored over 200 sets of classroom furniture locked away by the school administrator while the students take lectures on bare floor.

For long the students of the school have had to endure learning in the most uncomfortable manner. They had to put up with taking lectures while seated on bare floor. Most of them use prayer mats to protect their white tops from the floor dust, while others come to classes with extra wrappers to spread on the floor.

Incidentally, the state government has made provision of furniture for them, but the school administrator in an unexplainable manner, locked up 200 sets of classroom furniture unattended to and left to rot away. However, the students; suffering came to an end last week when the committee set up by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal to implement the state of emergency declared in education sector, visited the school.

The visit was facilitated by the need to individually assess problems of various schools and to make recommendations to government on how best to address them. Upon visiting the Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto, students were seen taking lectures while sitting on bare floor. To our amazement, a few blocks away, 200 new classroom furniture were locked away unattended to. We immediately ordered that the furniture be arranged in the classes in need, and the school management was admonished to always prioritize the need of the students at all times." said Dr. Shadi Sabeh, who led members of the school needs Assessment sub-committee during the visit.