By Abdullahi Shugaba in Bauchi
A Traditional Ruler in Bauchi State, Alhaji Muhammad Daud has expressed worries over lack of teachers and well-defined structures in the school system in his domain, stressing that it calls for urgent and cogent attention.
The assertion was made by the traditional leader of Ruggan Fulanin Kabba, Alhaji Muhammad Daud yesterday while speaking with newsmen where he decries lack of teachers and good structures in three communities in his domain.
Dauda lamented that the lack of teachers and structures in various communities which includes Bakwal, Tamungas and Ruggan Fulanin Kabba have negatively affected the children schooling in those areas, stressing that children spent 6 months without going to School.
However, he called for the intervention of the Bauchi state government led by people’s governor, Senator Bala Abdukadir Muhammad, to provide with the affected schools quality teachers and conducive environment for learning.
He said that a number school are having only one teacher but, is now retired from work.
Dauda maintained that after the retirement of the head master, no single teacher again and the students have now spent consecutive six months without going to school for lack of teachers.
He said that there was a block built by the former governor of the state, Mal. Isa Yuguda, since that time nothing like renovation and the school is completely dilapidated.
He further said that the school was built during the administration of governor Isa Yuguda in order for the children of the community to have access to education.
The traditional leader said that the students are not coming to school again for lack of having a single teacher and structure in the school.
“Without school, the lives of our children will be in danger and they will not have a brighter future. With this condition, our children have not gone to school for the past six months, which is very bad.
“We should not look down on the children because some of them will be President, governor’s, Minister’s, senators, doctors, mechanic, plumbers and others’ he stressed