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No fewer than 4.7 million pupils in primary schools in Kano state were sitting on bare floors to access education, the state Governor, Abba Yusuf, revealed.
Yusuf who bemoaned the declining state in the quality of education upon his assumption of office on May 29, 2033 said more than 400 schools in the state had only one teacher for all classes and subjects, with the teachers struggling with outdated and insufficient resources.
According to him, “More than 4.7 million pupils were sitting on bare floors to take lessons while about 400 schools have only one teacher for all classes and all pupils.
“Rather than building more classrooms and providing basic furniture in the schools, as well as hiring more teachers, the administration we took over from chose to butcher the land belonging to those schools, in some places, demolishing classrooms to create space for shops.
“Those schools that they could not sell, they closed them down and got them vandalised. The encroachment of public school lands and the conversion of these vital institutions into private business premises is an affront to our communal values and a direct assault on our commitment to public education.
“This reckless appropriation of educational spaces for commercial use is unacceptable and must be stopped immediately,” he said.
The governor restated the commitment of his administration to addressing the devastating state of the education sector in the state.
