Following overcrowding occasioned by inadequate infrastructure, the purported plan by the state government to sell the staff quarters and some land of Queen Amina College, Kaduna, is raising dust.
The school, Daily Trust gathered, is facing severe overcrowding as it is reported that 180 students occupy a room meant for 20 or 30 students, with three girls often forced to share a single 6-inch spring bed due to lack of adequate accommodation.
Daily Trust reports that just like Queen Amina College, other state government-owned schools are facing similar fate, some of which are the Government College, Kurmin Mashi, the Sardauna Memorial College (SMC) and Rimi College all within the state metropolis.
Daily Trust recalled that in 2017, the Kaduna State government published an invitation to bid and the approved guidelines for public auction of state government’s residential quarters to public servants and the general public.
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The government of Malam Nasir El-Rufai had exempted the sales of some categories of government residential houses. It particularly exempted the sale of institutional quarters of all hospitals, schools and other related facilities in the state.
But in 2021, the state government’s Committee on the Sale of Government Residential Quarters allocated the quarters of Government Secondary School, Kaduna, without the knowledge of the civil servants/teachers who had occupied the residence for many years, rendering them homeless. Teachers of Queen Amina College are facing the same fate.
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