The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Gwagwalada Area Council branch, has distributed new school uniforms to pupils of various public primary schools in the area after discovering that most of the pupils, including girls, wear torn uniforms.
Speaking during the public presentation of the school uniform which held at Pilot Science Primary School Sabon Garin Gwagwalada in Abuja, the branch Chairman of NUT, Comrade Idris Ismaila, said that the gesture became necessary after the union visited some schools and discovered that some pupils wore wrong, torn or patched up uniforms.
“We saw girls with uniforms torn at the back. We saw boys with uniforms so close to rags, the knickers patched with another colour. We saw boys holding their shorts with rope. Many boys and girls were putting on short uniforms with no hope of replacement. Some of them cannot walk straight because you must not see their back. A number of them have several patches on their uniforms.”
According to him, they selected 25 pupils with worst cases in each school from the three zones of Gwagwalada area council.
He explained that the schools included Islamiyya Primary School from Gwagwalada zone, LEA Gwako II Primary School from Zuba zone and LEA Dnalita Primary School from Dobi zone.
He said that a total number of 75 pupils have gotten free uniforms, adding that the aim was to make the pupils happy and to put them in a state of mind to achieve academic excellence.
The chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) FCT chapter who was represented by the Vice Chairman II, Comrade Yina Obadaya, urged other branches of the union to emulate Gwagwalada branch.
In his remark, the Former NUT Chairman Gwagwalada branch and current Desk Officer of the Junior Secondary Schools in the FCT Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB), S. M Bello, urged the members of the union to unite and work as a team to achieve the desired goal.
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