When an unidentified man approached the management of St Paul’s Catholic Nursery and Primary School, Ebute Metta, Lagos state, with talks of constructing new classrooms in 2022, their hearts leaped up with joy.
A general hall was dilapidated and almost collapsing at St Paul’s, so the head teacher and her assistant, Agbaje E.T, took time to explain the dire need of the school — a general hall — while touring the dilapidated one with “the said man”, who eventually left with promises to return but never did.
Findings by UDEME, however, revealed that only one of these schools has benefited from the classroom project despite the multi-million naira allocation. Four of these schools did not need new classroom buildings or space to accommodate such construction, to begin with. Azeez Isiaq, another resident in the area, also said he attended The Apostolic Primary School and graduated in 2003 and noted that “the school was eventually demolished 12 years ago after it served as a gambling den for about two years”.A trip to Abeokuta/Freeman Street confirmed that The Apostolic Primary School indeed shared classes with the host school, Salvation Army Primary School.
“We have received a visitation from government agencies like UBEC multiple times and we are cooperating with them to ensure that the school is rebuilt.” The project was contracted to Isyours Investment Limited, an Abuja-based investment company, according to the project plaque found in the school.
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