ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi–
Bauchi state governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, has disclosed that his administration is spending over N350 million to renovate Government Secondary School, Zaki in Zaki Local Government Area of the state.
Governor Mohammed stated this during an inspection of projects awarded by his administration across the state on Saturday.
According to him, 12 more schools will be built and 12 others in dilapidated condition renovated across the 20 LGAs of the state.
“We were here a year ago and we saw the dilapidation of the school, it has been abandoned and neglected for 40 years and we decided, because of this school and in recognition of the support and assistance that the people of Zaki has given us that brought us to power, to make this place an example of how we are going to do the educational renewal of Bauchi”.
“We have the highest number of out of school, we have the highest number of dilapidated schools, we decided to start with Zaki and we are spending about N350 million and we are going to add more because there are areas that have not been procured,” he said.
The governor added that: “Because of that, we have observed that we have 12 more schools that need to be renovated. This procurement will be done this year and in addition and in order to catch-up with our neighbours and our counterparts as states, we are building 12 more schools because we want to borrow, we want to copy our leader and father, Alhaji Tatari Ali of blessed memory”.
“Everything you see in terms of infrastructure services in education and health, it was him, the former governor of Bauchi, who showed us the way. He built schools in every local government, he was the one who built all the local government headquarters, he was the one who built all the roads we are enjoying today in Bauchi.”
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