If you are a regular user of the Ijora flyover bridge,
you may have consciously or otherwise noticed a
perimeter fencing with two gates shielding two
primary schools, a junior high school and an
abandoned health centre with ugly shanties erected
around the perimeter fencing. The schools are Banjo
Primary School, Ebenezer Primary School and Ogbo
Junior High School, all in the swampy Otumara
community, Ebute Metta West, Lagos State.

Located in an unfriendly and inhabitable environment,
students of these schools are exposed to various
dangers, including diseases and attacks from street
urchins and animals . The schools which are near
Brickfield Street, Apapa have a minimum of 500
students each. The sorry state of these schools,
particularly Banjo Primary School, however, demands
urgent attention from relevant authorities.

Until recently, when a non-governmental organisation
offered a helping hand by erecting the perimeter
fencing which was estimated at about N2 million,
students of these schools were unintentionally mixing
freely with street urchins and domestic animals that
have made the schools their abode.

Apart from that, uncleared refuse dumps and weeds
competed for space in the schools premises. Same
applies to the abandoned, vandalized health centre
where street urchins usually pitch their tent
irrespective of government presence.

Banjo Primary School has only six teachers attending
to over 500 pupils. The teachers are supported by a
head teacher and an assistant head teacher to carry
out academic duties. This is apart from the fact that
the school is made up of only six classrooms which
are in advanced state dilapidation. An resident who
pleaded anonymity told Vanguard Metro, VM, that
some of the pupils have been raped due by
undesirable elements that usually hang around,
although none of the victims has spoken out.

To make matters worse, some parents said that
during the rainy season, the premises are usually
flooded. VM gathered that Senator Remi Tinubu
offered to donate three classrooms through a
contractor who did not complete the project. This was
also the case with the four-year-old dilapidated six
classrooms building which was said to have been
badly constructed. VM was informed when the former
head teacher called the attention of the contractor to
the shoddy job, the contractor had threatened to deal
with her.

As at the time of filing this report, some worried
parents are appealing to all relevant authorities to
come to the aid of the school as there are very strong
indications that it might cave in any moment and
endanger the lives of the innocent pupils. One of the
parents, 50-year-old Mrs Basirat Abdukareem, said
several complaints have been expressed over the
matter in the past but nothing has been done so far in
response. ‘’We shall not stop calling on government
until our prayers are answered,” she said.

Another parent, Mr Olokunola Adisa, said he was
planning to relocate to another area due to the poor
condition of the school. ‘’The classroom block can
collapse any moment. So, I am planning to relocate
my children but this is difficult because that is the
only school around here. We want the government to
intervene because no one knows what these children
can become tomorrow,” he said.





http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/lagos-school-where-pupils-share-classrooms-with-animals/

Hmmm.... Some leaders of tomorrow.

And we have govt... APC be shouting change. .. Na federal them want to change, when they haven't changed d state they have been ruling for how many yrs

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That place no dey Fasola agenda..

Pictures dude