By Abdullahi Yunusa
The Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), an umbrella body of former students of Federal government Colleges popularly called Unity Schools across the country has maintained that unity schools remains a bastion of unity.
According to a communiqué signed by the body’s National President, Engr. Muhammad Kabiru Nuhu-Koko after its 20th Plenary Session/AGM/Election with the theme ‘Rekindling and Sustaining the Vision of the Founding Fathers of the Unity Schools’, said “if the Unity Schools are retained, appropriately funded, transparently managed and admission policy is truly national, some of the challenges that tend to threaten our very existence as one nation will be greatly minimized”.
He expressed worries over the alarming state of decay in most Unity Schools across the country, stressing that “it is sad that the Unity schools as they stand today are no longer what they used to be at the inception in 1966 when the first set of these schools were established by the founding fathers of this great nation. This is evident in their abysmal academic performance since the mid 1990s, localized admission system, poor funding/funds management and decaying infrastructure and indeed in the level of insecurity and threat to our coexistence as Nigerian nation”.
He further said, “It is sad that the fate of the Unity schools is still an issue for discussion in government circles. This has been the case since 2006. USOSA believes that if leakages of funds are blocked and governments at all levels devote more funds to education, these schools would not suffer the neglect they now face.
He reiterated the body’s readiness to partner with government in her efforts to revamp Unity Schools in the country, stressing that “While the association aligns itself with the steps being taken by the present administration in the Education sector as manifested in the adoption of the Roadmap by the Ministry of Education and the Presidential summit on Education, USOSA believes that there is still room for improvement,” the body adviced..
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