The Wuiwui community located in Akko Local Government Area of Gombe State, has now got two new blocks of classroom after a report by The PUNCH.
The PUNCH reports that the school, established in 2009 through community effort was built with mud and was destroyed by a windstorm.
The school was rebuilt by former governor and senator representing Gombe Central, Mr Danjuma Goje, with Universal Basic Education Commission as the client and executed by Ideal Crystal Limited.
About a year ago, when our correspondent visited the community, the Village Head, Majidadi Abubakar, urged the government to renovate their community primary school, which had been demolished over the years, adding that children learnt under harsh and unfriendly conditions.
Speaking in an interview with our correspondent on Thursday, Goje’s political aide, Musa Abdulkadir-Akko, said that the school was the senator’s attempt at bringing dividends of democracy to his constituency.
“The population of the area is about 1,500 and the land was initially made available by the late village head of Wuiwui. We have two benefiting communities namely Wuiwui and Sabongari Wuiwui. The school after completion was inaugurated around March 2023.”
Also, a resident of the community Idris Abubakar, said, “We want to thank PUNCH Newspaper for bringing the plight of our children to the required quarters. Usually, during the rainy season they (students) don’t go to school because trees can’t protect them from being drenched, but that won’t be the case again.
I also want to appeal to the State Universal Basic Education to provide the school with additional teachers; at the moment we have just one teacher, which is grossly inadequate.”
When contacted on the contribution of the state government, Commissioner for Education, Dr Aishatu Maigari, promised to clarify their interventions with SUBEB, and get back to our correspondent.
However, at the time of filing the report, Maigari was yet to provide an official statement.
