The Kano state government will take legal action against three private schools, for the endangering the lives of students.
By Musbahu Bala Cediyar Yan Gurasa
The executive Secretary of Kano state private and voluntary school Board o Baba Abubakar Umar said that they will take all the measures provided by the law against some schools that are found to be studying in buildings that don’t have good quality building and are on the verge of collapse, and those that are in the middle of the market, which the law does not allow to do so.
During a visit by some journalists to the schools shortly after receiving the Information about the schools , the investigation team of journalists found some buildings that are uncompleted, and students are taking lessons inside. There is no plaster in the classrooms.
Apart from some parts of the buildings that are in ruins,
The team also discovered dirty toilets that must have been infected by the disease. And that’s how the owners of the schools manage to teach and put hundreds of innocent children in danger.
The schools include Matasa Senior Arab and Secondary School, Naibawa; Best Alternative Comprehensive College, Sheka, and Ibn-Masud Science College, Kabuga.
Despite the bad quality of the schools, students were found writing their Necco exams in the kind of upstairs that were about to collapse, then littered with debris.
Sharing more light to the journalists after the completion of this survey, the executive secretary of the private schools board, Comrade Baba Umar, said he was very concerned about the behavior of these schools and did not hesitate to see that the owners of the schools have improved the learning environment. and teaching
He emphasized that the government will use The opportunity to take appropriate measures against all school owners who threaten the lives of innocent children in the name of doing business.
Then, he said that the era of closing schools has calmed down, but from now on they will prosecute the schools that break the law in court to face the consequences of what they have done.
Baba Umar stated that they have completed all the arrangements with the state ministry of justice and the state anti-corruption agency to take appropriate action against school owners found to have violated the law and regulations.
“We have witnessed many school buildings have collapsed in Abuja, Lagos and other states due to human willful reasons.
We will not let this happen in Kano. You have seen the condition of buildings and environment used by some private schools in Kano.
“You have seen how some of them are about to collapse and the unfinished buildings are still being used as classrooms. Buildings without windows and doors, classrooms with leaking concrete, classrooms without good roofs, and I filled them.
In this kind of classroom, why are children being put in to take lessons”. According to Baba Umar.
