Incredible: Kaduna's N11.7m school is in poor condition shortly after construction


 A controversy is brewing in the Chikun region of Kaduna state over the construction of a secondary school that fell into disrepair shortly after its completion.


Many have the award of the contract and the subsequent construction of a block with four classrooms at the Government Junior Secondary School (GJSS), television, in the local government. Several people feel that the project is a misplaced priority and state that it was certainly not the immediate needs of school-age children in the beneficiary communities.


 Information available on the website of the Kaduna State Agency for Public Procurement (KADPPA) showing that the construction of a block of four classrooms at GJSS Television, Chikun (SUBEB 2017) was contracted to M / S Salma Global Ventures for N11.724 million. 


Details of the contractor were not given on On On the KADPPA website, there was also no signpost about the contractor on the project page, making it virtually impossible to reach the company for comments.


The school also lacks a functioning school-based administrative committee (SBMC), while the chairman, parenting teacher The Association (PTA), Mr. Kabruk, was able to do so at the time of filing it report could not be reached on his cellphone.


But a man who is a member of the school's ancillary staff told the reporter with confidence that building the class block should not be the priority at this point Classrooms weren't necessary when there were five classrooms that could be renovated and furnished with furniture. The 1,473 students and their 40 teachers need tables and chairs more than a new building, ”the man said. 


 He continued: “There was no time for someone to come to the school to investigate or need an evaluation. They just came and told us it would be to build a block of four classrooms. They did not give us any documents or raise any signs at the project site so that we know what the project was about.


 “You can see the roof sagged by poor quality wood. The terrazzo was poorly finished, the doors are in poor condition and there was poor general supervision by the executing agency, "he added. 


 Further investigations by the journalist revealed that the four newly built classrooms began to leak, while some windows and doors shortly after the project was delivered and the ministry or executing agency issued a certificate of completion. 


 In fact, since the state's declaration of emergency education by the state government or Nasir El-Rufai on October 1, 2015, there has been a physical transformation of many public schools from their pathetic former state, although many feel that more ground needs to be covered.


 For example, the controversial dismissal of teachers 'scores labeled by the state as unskilled' and their subsequent replacement by others perceived as qualified, including some of the laid off who wrote the aptitude test and escalated through interviews, renewal and improvement of some schools, as well as the construction of a perimeter fence Protecting students are some of the steps taken by the authorities to reposition the education sector in the state. 


When a team of procurement monitors visited some schools in Kaduna city, there were many issues that were urgently required. This includes structures in various dilapidated conditions, sparse furniture, poorly equipped libraries and laboratories, offices and furniture for poor staff. Poorly executed new State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) projects and the inability to demand accountability, mostly naïve citizens.


 A registered volume assessor at Rutfa Quantz Consultants, Timothy Benjamin, who circled some of these schools with this correspondent, lamented the failure of the executive Parties who provide a copy of the Bill of Materials (BoQ) either to the school-based administrative committee or to school principals and principals.


 His words, “What I have observed and think the public needs to know is that we have all been badly executed. If we had access to the BoQ, that would have led us to relate the content to what we can see and touch.


 “But there are still some quick checks that we could see. For example, a block of four classrooms at the GJSS showed a lack of effective supervision, especially upon completion. This is on top of the general inferior material like poor workmanship.


 “If you know you are building for children, you are using something that will last. Check out the quality of the door frame. That is why some doors have already given way. Some windows are also outside the frame. Look at the ceiling, warping and leaking due to the use of inferior quality wood. 

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