About 1000 Potential Female Doctors Risk Loosing Ambition Over Poor Laboratory, Manpower in Kano School 

About 1000 Potential Female Doctors Risk Loosing Ambition Over Poor Laboratory, Manpower in Kano School

In commemorating the International day of Education in the world, Musa sani Aliyu, Hannatu Suleiman Abba, Salis Muhammad Manaja and Khadija Yusuf of Arewa Agenda for Sustainable Development, visited Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Darki in Wudil Local Government Area of Kano State, and files in this report.

AREWA AGENDA – A state of disrepair, obsolete and abandoned laboratory, with a total of only five full time and thirteen volunteer teacher is the overall make up of a girls school with exactly 9067 student enrollment.

Here, more than 60% of the girls aspire to become Medical Doctor’s in future but that ambition remains hazy as everyone of them grapple with the hard reality of a quality education that eludes them.

Findings by the Arewa Agenda team reveals that the School was established by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2005, with supervision responsibilities on the shoulders of the State Government.

About 17years later, the school is characterised by a gross inadequacy of  equipments for studies such as Science Labs, a well equipped Library, Entrepreneurship class and even infrastructural and manpower deficit.

 

“We lack even seating facilities and

 learning have been a very tedious task for us as a result, we are not enjoying it at all but we have to move on because we want to become educated and useful in future,” one of the girls who pleaded anonymity said.

Also speaking on the issue, the School’s Head Girl who doesn’t want her name in print, pleaded with government to intervene earnestly.

“The Government have provided us with  laboratory facilities that is decaying because of lack of science teachers, we call on the government please as a matter of urgency do something fast to secure their future ambition.”

“Only five of the teachers have government offer here and almost all our student seat on the floor to obtain their lessons in class,” one of the teacher lamented.

 A student with visual impairment in Senior Secondary (SS) 1 ,who often come to school early to get a seat at the front class said she finds it very difficult to read and write because of the distance in the class.

“But when I seat in front since I have to, I have to contend with and endure the dusty particles of the chalk which I eventually suffer alot of fall out consequences after class,” she explained.

“Despite my condition I will like to be a future opthalmologist ,and that is what many of my friends with disabilities aspire to be in future but I don’t think we can achieve that if things go on like this,” she explicated further.

Similarly, a person of short stature who is also a student of the school lamented that she faces stigmatization and bullying in school and her immediate community.

“I see myself as a future Doctor in my village but I’m being mocked my all. My disability will not allowed my mum to enrol me into schools in neighboring because it’s very far, however, I will not stop keeping hope alive,” she said

Meanwhile, some volunteer teachers who seek anonymity said, they had been teaching voluntarily in the school for more than five years.

“Are are asking government to intervene in the school. We are all based in the neighboring village but our zeal to see to it that our younger ones are educated made us to volunteer in the school,” the teacher explained.

He further emphasised that lack science teachers in the school has rendered their volunteer endeavors inadequate and in effective.

“Alot of the girls here enroll in the school, seeing themselves as future physicians but the lack of teaching materials, portable water, clean toilet and other learning factors in the school is a big threat to this ambition,” he submitted.