KNUPDA Boss Inspects State-Owned Schools Under Renovation

The Managing Director, Kano State Urban Planning and Development Authority (KNUPDA), Suleiman Abdulwahab has begun inspection of state-owned schools being renovated.

Abdulwahab who visited some of the schools in the state's metropolis on Thursday said the schools were twenty-one altogether.

He explained that the renovation was taking place through Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.

He stated that the plan became necessary to ensure that teaching and learning take place in a conducive environment. 

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Abdulwahab explained that: ”This further underscores the state government’s objective of driving quality output across the state-owned schools through the provision of infrastructure critical to facilitating better-quality teaching and learning

“We hope to see more PPPs in the education sector with the twin objective of raising infrastructure standards and quality while reducing the burden of financing the sector and providing security to the schools.

“Under the project, 21 public schools have been selected in the 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 schools' management for maintenance

‘’The renovation is done through PPP with the construction of shops by the perimeter fence of the schools which will be providing funds for the schools' management and in which the ownership of the shops will eventually be the same school after a period of time by the investors who are embarking on the construction."

He added that the state government was also renovating the schools in response to security complaints by school authorities and residents of the host communities.

He added that complaints were also received from the Schools Based Management Committee (SBMC) and the Parent Teachers’ Associations on the overpopulation of students in the schools.

Abdulwahab added that his agency collaborated with the state's Education Ministry and the State House of Assembly to amend laws guiding activities around the schools to enable renovation and remodelling without hitch. 

He further revealed that over 85 per cent of the first phase of the renovations has been completed.