The Chairman of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of Model Junior Secondary School Maitama, Abuja, Alhaji Ibrahim Maliki, has commended the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike, for the total rehabilitation of infrastructural facilities in the school by the FCT administration.
The rehabilitation work was carried out recently on dilapidated school buildings, decrepit classrooms, offices, school toilets and roofs, etc.
The elated PTA Chairman said the renovations and rehabilitation exercise remains a crucial investment in education and community development, adding that it not only improves the learning environment, but also shows a commitment to our country’s future generation’s wellbeing.
“It is indeed a great privilege to witness this level of turn-around of the school in our time as the executives of the PTA of the school. We are highly pleased and ecstatic about it”, the Chairman said in his interaction with journalists.
The Mandate Secretary of the FCT Education Secretariat, Dr. Danlami Hayyo who came for the third inspection of the renovation work in the school coincidentally met the PTA officials in a joyous mood during the school’s sent forth event/prize giving day for the graduating of JS 3 students. He addressed both the graduating students and parents who were happy to see the conducive environment their children and wards now learn.
The Principal of the School, Mrs Mary Samuel Ebong, Ph.D, while responding to the address by the Mandate Secretary, however thanked the FCT Minister and the contractor who handled the rehabilitation work for a good job well done. Dr Mary Ebong, who is also a Director- Principal in the FCT Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) under Education Secretariat, in the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), attributed the renovation work so far carried out in the school as prayers answered.
According to the Principal, she saw the rehabilitation of the school as a major task to be accomplished due to the level of dilapidation she met on assumption of duty in the school.
“Thank God the authorities saw it the same way, and today, we are blessed to witness this total turn-around of our school. Now, we are indeed a Model School”, she enthused.
The school’s PTA Chairman was represented by the Vice, Mrs Juliet Nwabiani Okafor. She assured the Mandate Secretary that the PTA would work assiduously to preserve and protect the new look of the school through scheduled maintenance culture.
“It is indeed a thing of honour for us to commend the contractor, Hon. Deinma Iyalla and his contracting firm, Commerce Services Nigeria Limited, for the great job done in the school.
Nyesom Wike had on assumption of office as FCT Minister, sent a supplementary budget to the National Assembly for the 2023 budget. And among the items on the supplementary budget is the rehabilitation of 19 schools in FCT, an action he said, is in fulfilment of the Renewed Hope Agenda of the federal government.
While flagging-off the project at the FCT School for the Gifted in Gwagwalada, in March , the Minister remarked that the premises of most of the secondary schools in the territory had been encroached on by certain individuals, which ought not to be.
The 19 schools undergoing rehabilitation are based on 2023 supplementary budget. Another set of 20 schools will be taken up in the 2024 budget year.
The FCT Minister had stressed the importance of a proper, conducive and habitable learning environment. He used the occasion to thank the National Assembly for expeditiously passing the FCT 2024 budget.
He further assured the students that all their expectations will be met. According to him, it will be “access to education with quality” and nothing else!
The Minister stated that education without quality is not education. He promised to provide a conducive environment, qualified teachers and habitable hostels for the schools accordingly. All these, he said, was “for the total development of our future leaders”.
The PTA therefore thanked the Honourable Minister for a new MJSS, Maitama.
