By Dauda R Pam Maiduguri
According to the GOVERNOR, the schools have 30 classrooms each to accommodate between 40 to 50 pupils at the maximum, meaning about 3,000 pupils in 60 classrooms.
He said the schools have been equipped with desks and chairs while pupils already admitted have been provided with free uniforms,
48 teaching and Non-teaching staff who include the Head-teachers, to serve both schools at equal ratio with enough spaces for future expansion.
The schools which were initiated and completed by Governor Zulum’s 17 month-old administration, hinted that,
“Government is handing over the school to the community and the community is expected to run the school through a Committee within the community, while Government will pay teachers salary through the Education Trust Fund on monthly basis by way of grants to the School.
“In addition to this, Government is determined to maintain and sustain the school in close collaboration with community efforts in ways that will serve generations” to come, he said.
Prof. Zulum, during the short but impressive ceremony, which had in attendance the state deputy governor, Usman Umar Kadafur, other officials and members of both communities, where he announced that, two deep aquifer boreholes be constructed to serve community members around the Mega school and approved the recruitment of over 700 teachers for secondary schools with hundreds of others for primary schools.
In the same vein, the GOVERNOR has flagged-off the construction of a new road net-work and drainages at Moromoro community, just as he announced the dualization of 10km customs-Muna road, to connect with the ever first fly-over,at the cost of N5bn,a commercial route along Maiduguri-Mafa-Dikwa road, to be executed by a Chinese firm to decongest the customs round about area.
