Bauchi gov earmarks N500m for reconstruction of alma mater

The Bauchi State Government has earmarked the sum of N500 million in the 2021 budget for the reconstruction of Government Science Secondary School (GSSS), Bauchi popularly known as Garu, established in 1915.

Governor Bala Mohammed disclosed this Saturday during the joint 40th and 50th anniversary of the school and public lecture organized by Garu Old Boys Association sets of ‘70 and ‘80, saying that 20 hectares of land had already been identified in Miri, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis for the project.

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Represented by his Special Adviser on Projects, Arch Baba Mohammed Dadi, the governor said the Ministry of Education had expressed fear that successive administrations may convert the edifice into a higher institution or even sell it out to the federal government.

The governor who is a member of Garu Old Boys Association set of 1976 lamented that “Our former school was debased because the school had no vanguards to defend its continuous existence.”