By Praise Chinecherem
Enugwu Agidi community in Njikoka Local a Government Area has keyed in to Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s initiative of involving communities and stakeholders in the transformation of community schools in Anambra State.
The community through a committee, the Educate Enugwu-Agidi Committee’, a subsidiary of club of patrons and matrons of Community Secondary School, CSS, and Government Technical College, GTC, Enugwu-Agidi, has handed over a newly renovated and remodeled Mrs Mary Okam Laboratory Complex at Community Secondary School, Enugwu-Agidi, to the school.
The Mary Okam Laboratory Complex houses the Biology, Chemistry, and Physics laboratories, and an ICT center.
The handover ceremony of the complex also featured the groundbreaking of a six-bedroom Corpers’ Lodge aimed at ensuring that the school is well-staffed with comfortable, free accommodation provided for youth corps members posted to the school.
Addressing the gathering before commissioning the laboratory complex, the Anambra State Commissioner for Education, Professor Ngozi Chuma-Udeh stated the when progressivism is enthroned among a people, there are always better results, adding that though he met schools without teachers and with other rots, Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s commitment to repositioning the education of the state is unwavering.
She noted that the projects are testimonies that the public private community partnership model of the Governor is working, and thanked Enugwu-Agidi people for thinking good about the future of their children.
Traditional ruler of Enugwu-Agidi, Igwe Michael Okekeuche, who recalled activities of herdsmen in the school because of lack of perimeter fence and fire incidents that gutted the old laboratories, called on government to assist the community more in repositioning the school.
National Cordinator of Educate Enugwu-Agidi Committee, Prince Chinedu Ikeanyi, represented by a member of the committee, Engr Victor Onwudinjo, said the move to improve education in the community aligns with Governor Soludo’s charge to school Principals to rally people in their areas of assignment for development in the education sector, calling on other well-to-do individuals in the community to join hands in shaping the future of future generations.
Principal of CSS Enugwu-Agidi, Mrs Thecla Azubike, who described the projects as remarkable achievements, recalled the dilapidated nature of structures she met on ground, as well as efforts made to change the narrativee, adding that the laboratory complex will help in effective teaching and learning of related subjects.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mrs Ifeoma Agbaizu, member, PPSSC, Awka zone, Dr Mrs Uche Okeke, among others attended the event that featured cultural dance by students of the school.
