13/02/2025
Communique Issued at the End of one Day Advocacy visit to LGEA Primary School Sabon Tasha Kaduna.
Preamble
On the 3rd of February 2025, Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism Education cohort (KAD-LGAM), in collaboration with Community Action and Outreach on Girl Education (COURAGE) and Procyon TV undertook an advocacy visit to the LGEA Primary School Sabon Tasha to follow-up on earlier community engagements that exposed key issues and challenges faced by the school.
The school, which was established in 1977, has 911 pupils (boy 356 and girls 599). The present enrollment rate is 40 pupils from recent data from the school with a learners performance rate of about 80% of learners of learners performance.
This LGEA Primary School Sabon Tasha, attracts learners from about nine communities which include: Gbagyi Villa, Ungwan Yelwa, Ungwan Matari, Ungwan Juji, Tsauni Kaura, Ungwan Pama. Some learners walk for up to 30 minutes to reach their school in good time every morning.
Key challenges affecting the basic school
The school is adversely affected by insecurity notably vandalism aided by absence of any fence around the school, which has been the major cause of concern to the SBMC, community leaders, learners and the school management.
The school community is unable to curtail open defecation, disposal refuse and free movement of pedestrians and mentally unstable persons are putting children enrolled to this school at risk.
The school is a play ground to drug users and sexually activity after school hours with all the traces left for the learners to sweep away before starting classes.
There are several multi-grade classrooms where learners of various classes are collected in one room to learn at a time.
The lack of fencing have made it impossible for the school community to plant and nurture trees and stalled important initiatives to make the school climate friendly.
In 2024, unidentified contractors who were renovating some dilapidated classrooms at the school took away the existing roof and have not returned to complete the renovation. The action has worsened an already pupil to classroom ratio deficit in the school.
Learners at the schools decried the lack of supplies of items such as learning materials such as books, uniforms, play facilities for ECCDE, chalk, textbooks, chairs, tables.
The toilet facilities in the schools are not in any usable conditions and it constitutes a challenge for female learners.
All learners in the school openly defecate around the school premises as other alternatives are unsafe and difficult to access.
The school compound has been turned into a football field by the community and connecting routes-a source of distraction for learners during class hours.
Recommendations
There is an urgent need for fencing of the school facility to protect what is left of the infrastructure in the school.
We recommend that Kaduna State Government makes a prompt provision of security services to forestall vandalism and other vices in the school premises.
The school is in need of ECCDE facilities to cater for pre-primary learners who are currently disadvantaged in the area.
We recommend that the government considers this school in the drive for improved infrastructure for public schools, provisions of teaching and learning materials, furniture and sanitation facilities.
Sign
Alheri Waje
Lead Education Cohort
Kaduna Local Government Accountability Mechanism (KAD-LGAM)
Waniya Ilu
Community Outreach and Action on Girl Education (COURAGE)
Jeremiah Dawah
Youth leader
Ungwan Matari Sabon Tasha.
