Kaduna state government has budgeted over N3 billion for the rehabilitation of 167 primary and junior secondary schools across the 23 local government areas of the state, in its effort to improve the standard of education and shore up the performance of students in the state.
Chairman of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mr Ishaya Dary Akau, said this in Kaduna at the weekend, adding that 28 of the 167 schools would get new laboratories, while 27 would have new examination hall built for them, the remaining 112 would benefit from general rehabilitation of blocks of its classrooms.
Addressing the media after conducting an inspection tour of the rehabilitation projects ongoing in Kaduna, Zaria and Ikara local government areas of the state, Akau said the projects, which is part of the 2012/2013 intervention of the Universal Basic Education Commission Fund, was a joint project of the federal and Kaduna state governments.
The SUBEB chairman added that the nature of the project included total rehabilitation of facilities in some selected schools and construction of additional classrooms in the others, and warned that the board had gone beyond just singling out a block of two classrooms for construction or renovation in a school.
Akau, who frowned upon the contractors “who are slow in executing their projects, expressed satisfaction with the progress of work in other places, saying that “no contractor has reason to delay our projects, because once you finish your work, you get your money, because the money is on ground.”
