Ongoing Renovation, Reconstruction To Cover 100 Schools To Mark Okpebholo’s 100 Days In Office, Says SUBEB Boss

Edo State governor, Sen. Monday Okpebholo is reconstructing and renovating structures in 100 schools across the state to mark his 100 days in office as part of his desire to make an immediate impact in governance.

The Chairman, Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mrs Onomen Goodness Briggs stated this when she was accompanied by the member representing Edo South in the Board, Mrs Angela Okpamen to visit some schools in the state

The SUBEB chairman also called on communities, parents and residents where schools are located, to help check vandalism of schools’ facilities adding that Governor Okpebholo was already including fencing of all the schools his administration would work on.

She visited Ebo Primary School in Iyekhogba and Ore-Oghene Primary school both in Oredo local government area, as well as Evbareke Junior Secondary School, Use Junior Secondary School and Okhekhugbo Primary school in Egor local government area where she assured that all the renovation and reconstruction works would be competed between one to three weeks.

According to her, “Security is one major issue we have to look into and we also have to sensitize the communities so that they can put an eye on these properties because the children are the ones that will suffer if these facilities are destroyed if these thefts and vandalism continues.

“So, we need to sensitize the people and the entire community so as to involve everybody, including the teachers, the pupils and the students so that if they see anything sinister they can say something.

“Fences are part of the security arrangement so we are also going to make sure that these schools have fences and security posts so that you can only come into the compound through the security post, this is also key to us and the governor has already started.

“Most of the constructions going on, including fencing, are part of what the governor is looking at.”

“We did five today, we have a hundred currently going on across the state, we are going to Edo central and Edo North within the week.

“The construction and the renovation includes furnishing, so the chairs and the tables are already part of it. You can’t put a new wine in an old wine skin, so you can’t get new chairs and tables and put them in a dilapidated building, we need the buildings to be good and okay then furniture can go in.

“Some of them will be completed in one week, some less than a week while some two weeks or maximum three weeks”, Briggs said.

It was observed that most of the schools visited, the pupils lack furniture as many of them sat on the floor while some were overcrowded with about 200 students of four arms using one classroom.