The Katsina-Ala Old Boys Association (KAOBA), on Monday, announced its decision to renovate structures in the over 100-year-old Government College, Kastina-Ala, in Benue State, with a N60 million donation from a former student, Gen. TY Danjuma.
The President of KAOBA, Dr. Haroun Adamu, who led the Board of Trustees on a visit to Gov. Samuel Ortom in Makurdi, noted that the century-old institution had impacted prominent persons of the society, hence the need to uphold its age-long standard.
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Dr. Adamu said, “We are here today to also appreciate you for the financial and moral support you have been rendering to our association. Your excellency, this century-old institution provides most of the Middle Belt with eminent personalities in the services of native administration, regional and national political and public service officers, as well as the armed forces, the police and traditional rulers.
“Mention must, however, be made of the three Chiefs of Army Staff (COAS): Colonel Joe Akaahan, Lt. Gen. T.Y Danjuma and Lt. Gen. Victor Malu, and a Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Rear Admiral Abdullahi Doma, the school produced.”
He said among other things they were at the government house to formally inform the governor that an elder of the association, Gen. TY Danjuma, KAOBA 1958, had donated N60m for the renovation of the hostels of the school.
He, therefore, appealed for action to be expedited on the outcome of a judicial panel set up in 2015 to revisit problems reported about the sales of school lands/property by previous administrations in order to salvage the school by gazetting the government’s decision.
Responding, Ortom directed his Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Michael Gusa to liaise with relevant ministries in the state and ensure the implementation of white paper from the judicial panel for immediate recovery of the school land.
