Students of Community Secondary School, Okoragu in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State have appealed to the government to urgently renovate their school, describing the learning environment as unsafe and deplorable.
Senior Prefect, Nwachukwu Favour, said the situation makes learning almost impossible. “We are not happy because we cannot learn properly. When it rains, teachers can’t enter the class since the floor is flooded. Even after the ceiling broke and injured a student, nothing has been done,” he lamented.
He urged the government to replace damaged properties in the classrooms and the school hall.
Similarly, the female Senior Prefect, Asonye Faith, described the school’s condition as unbearable.“Anytime it rains, we don’t feel comfortable. Teachers can’t teach us under leaking roofs. We want the government to fix the ceilings and leaking places so we can learn properly,” she said.
Students say they live in fear whenever they come to school, worried that more sections of the building could collapse
