A group, Initiative for Grassroots Interventions and Development in Education (IGIDE), has decried the condition of the abandoned premises of the School of Craft and Domestic Centre located at Azikiwe Road by East, Aba, Abia State.
In a press release made available to Journalists in Umuahia by Mrs Eunice Egbuna, the Executive Director of IGIDE, the organization passionately pleaded with the state government to put the abandoned school structure into use by refurbishing it, to make it look like a real learning environment.
Mrs Egbuna said, “The classrooms are hired out to furniture makers to park their material and to others for other businesses.
“We have been informed recently that some bad boys have converted the compound to their hideouts where they sell drugs, and sexually harass women among other ills. We fear that they may make away with the borehole Sumo if nothing is done to secure the place”.
Egbuna said if the government would carry out an immediate intervention in the School, the IGIDE, in collaboration with the Abia Retired Teachers, would volunteer their skills to gather all out-of-school children and help educate them for the good of society.
This, she said, would enable indigent children be trained in academics and skill-making and also prevent the out-of-school children from turning to menaces against the society in future.
