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Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing says the Federal Government’s development of infrastructures in tertiary institutions across the country is effective.
Fashola disclosed this on Friday in Abuja in a statement issued by Mrs Boade Akinola, the Director, Press and Public Relations in the ministry.
He made the remarks during handing over ceremony of rehabilitated 2.45 kilometres internal roads by the ministry to the Rector of the Federal Polytechnic Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State.
The minister, who was represented by the Federal Controller of Works, Zamfara, Mr Hassan Muhammed, said it’s indisputable that the quality of education would be impacted by the quality of infrastructure and the learning environment.
He said those who doubt should simply listen to some of the feedback from the students of the schools where the intervention had already taken place.
He said there are forty-three of such interventions in internal roads within tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
In his response, Rector of the polytechnic Mr Yahaya Bande said that the school which was established thirty-six years ago had suffered deplorable road condition, especially during the rainy season.
“We thank President Muhammadu Buhari for remembering us,” he said.
The rector, however, promised to help maintain the roads and put them to good use.
“We are very happy that the roads have been fixed because of the sandy nature of the roads before the intervention and students usually fall from bikes. We have recorded a lot of accidents on these roads.”
Reiterating Abdulmalik’s position, the Vice President of the Students Union, Miss Hannah Obinna also expressed her happiness over the completion of the project in her time.
“We thank President Buhari and the Honourable Minister for making this happen.
“It will attract more students to the school, we have been posting the pictures of the roads on our social media platforms to serve as an encouragement to would-be students of the institution.”
News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Federal Government had completed eighteen out of the forty-three of which Federal Polytechnic Kaura Namoda was one of the beneficiaries.
