Residents appeal to government to rehabilitate primary school

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October 31, 2016 1:16 PM

They made the appeal in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Sangama.

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Residents of Sangama in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers, have appealed to the state government to rehabilitate the only primary school in the community.

A leader in the community, Mr Gabriel Osini, told NAN that the only public primary school in Sangama, was in bad state.

Osini said that the present condition of the school had become worrisome, adding that government should not allow the pupils to continue to study in such environment.

According to him, the community had written several letters to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), requesting the rehabilitation of the primary school.

Corroborating Osini’s view, Mr Francis Igoniwari, said the Gov. Nyesom Wike’s administration should give the people a sense of belonging by repairing the school building.

“The rehabilitation is long overdue; the pupils get drenched whenever it rains and this is not good for a state like ours,” he said.

Mrs Ere Igboms, a teacher, noted that it was dangerous for the pupils to study in such a school building with a collapsing roof.

Igboms said that any day it rained during school hours, the pupils received their lessons amidst fears.

Another resident of the community, Mr Goddy Iro, said the state government should quickly intervene to avert imminent danger.

Iro stressed that the teachers and pupils were at a great risk being in the building whenever it rained.

Mrs Agatha Green noted that as the state government had embarked on school rehabilitation, it should extend the gesture to the state primary school at Sangama, the only primary school in the area.

“As a responsive and listening government, the Wike administration should, please, listen to the cry of Sangama people and fix the school,” she added.

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