Kogi community wants secondary school

Osaragada community in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi has asked the state government to establish a secondary school and provide desks for the only primary school in the area. The community made the call at the second annual stakeholders’ forum tagged ‘promoting women and young people’s rights through knowledge building’ held at the Community […]

Osaragada community in Adavi Local Government Area of Kogi has asked the state government to establish a secondary school and provide desks for the only primary school in the area.
The community made the call at the second annual stakeholders’ forum tagged ‘promoting women and young people’s rights through knowledge building’ held at the Community Primary School recently.
 Our correspondent reports that the programme was funded by the European Commission (EC) and implemented by the ActionAid Nigeria in collaboration with a Kogi-based organisation, Participation Initiative for Behavioral Change in Development (PIBCID).
Spokesman of the community, Mr. Umaru Akande, said one of the two classroom blocks of the primary school was provided through the support the ActionAid Nigeria and PIBCID and pleaded with government to build a secondary school in the area.
Akande said efforts to make the state government provide furniture had yet to yield positive results. He noted that pupils were forced to evacuate the block of classrooms provided by government after its roof was blown off by rainstorm in July this year.
The community leader also solicited the assistance of non-governmental organisations in establishing a secondary school and primary healthcare centre in the area to meet their educational and health needs.
Mrs. Hajarat Ademu, ActionAid Nigeria Programme Officer, Women’s rights Unit, said the community’s demands would be channeled appropriately through government functionaries present at the occasion.
On her part, Mrs. Gift Omoniwa, Acting Executive Director of PIBCID said capacities of women, men and young people had been built through the programme funded by the European Community.
She said issues of gender-related violence had abated even as the community women now engage in productive economic activities while school enrolment especially of the girl-child had increased.