Adopt Kano model of schools renovation-Official urges other states

Kano State Government has urged other states government and incoming administration to adopt and sustain its schools renovation model to upgrade schools.

It said the model would reduce burden of educational challenges on governments so as to enhance educational standard with infrastructural facility provision.

SOLACEBASE reports that the Managing Director, Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KNUPDA) Arch. Suleiman Ahmed Abdulwahab stated this on Saturday while inspecting some schools under the state government renovation and remodeling program.

Abdulwahab said the model of public private partnership adopted in renovating the schools is in no small measure improving infrastructural facility that would enhance teaching and learning are conducted in a conducive atmosphere.

He explained that under the program, 21 public schools have been selected as pilot scheme within the metropolis as a measure to address insecurity facing most of the schools due to activities of miscreants and source of income for the school’s management for maintenance.

‘’The renovation being carried out across the selected schools is a public private partnership (PPP) with the construction of shops by the perimeter fence of the schools which will be providing fund for the schools management and in which the ownership of the shops will eventually be the same school after 30 years when the investors who are embarking on the construction would have recovered their investment,’’ the Managing Director said.

‘’On the completion of the shops, the investors would be taking 75% from the revenue generated from rent while 25% goes to the school authority.’’

‘’Similarly, the security threat of miscreants hibernating around the schools posing dangers to the teachers and students would be address with the security that would be provided by the shop owners.’’

‘’You see this initiative was sequel to complaints by the school authorities over the past six years on the security challenges of miscreants hibernating in most of the schools, poor infrastructures due to paucity of fund for maintenance and increasing population of students. ‘’

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‘’Most of the schools chosen in this program had written several letters to the government by the School Based Management Committee (SBMC) , the Parent Teachers Associations and old students associations of the deplorable infrastructure and security challenges.’’

After touring the schools under renovation which are about 95% completion, Arch. Suleiman Abdulwahab assured that most of the renovation and construction works would be completed in the next three weeks and handed over to the school authorities.

12 students toilets and one block 4 classrooms

‘’At Govt. Secondary School, Kofar Nasarawa, we constructed 2 blocks of 6 number classrooms, construction of 6 students toilets and construction of female staff toilets, ‘’Abdulwahab said.

‘’ Also at Government Girls Secondary School, Dabo, on France road by Sabo Gari, we constructed multi-purpose hall, Entrepreneurship Hall, Perimeter fence, Admin and Staff room, borehole and general renovation.’’

‘’Similarly at G.S.S Stadium, on Airport Road, we constructed 7 classroom of one block, 12 students toilets, Perimeter fence, admin block, Mosque, Laboratory and renovation of leaking roofs.’’

‘’At Chiranchi Primary School, we constructed 3 number blocks of 4 classes, security post and over 130-meter perimeter fence.’’

According to him, all these and that of other schools under the program would be completed in the next three weeks and handed over to the schools.