PTA constructs 20 toilets in Kaduna school

The Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of Zamani College in Kaduna State has constructed 20 units of modern toilets at the Government Secondary School Unguwar Rimi as part of its intervention in public schools.

Speaking while handing over the facility to the state government, the PTA chairman of the college, Alhaji Buhari Hassan, said it was the second intervention in public schools in the state by the association.

He said about three years ago, the PTA received a request for assistance from Government Secondary School Badarawa over its laboratory which lacked basic equipment. It said it equipped  the lab and handed it over to the school.

He said when the PTA received a similar letter from Government Secondary School Unguwar Rimi, the matter was tabled before the general assembly and it was overwhelmingly endorsed.

“We then asked our members who are professionals in the building sector to evaluate the cost of building the toilets. Our team, comprising an architect, quantity surveyor and a town planner, came up with a budget and we undertook the project as part of our corporate social responsibility,” he said.

Earlier, the Principal of Government Secondary School Unguwar Rimi, Alhaji AbdulMalik Ibrahim, thanked the PTA for building the toilets and recalled that Zamani College authorities had in the past contributed to the payment of the examination fees of two students from the school.

The Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Usman Muhammad Makarfi, who was represented by the Director of Public Schools, Alhaji Habib Idris Alhassan, noted that lack of toilets in schools was a contributory factor to low school enrolment, especially amongst female pupils.

Alhaji Habib further said the absence of toilets encouraged open defecation which is both an environmental and a health hazard.

The director recalled that the toilets of the school collapsed about two years ago, following massive flooding and the government was working towards repairing them before the PTA of Zamani College came to the rescue.