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The Kaduna State Government has said it has no plan to relocate its tertiary institutions located in Southern Kaduna because of the lingering crisis in the area.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the schools have been shut since the beginning of the latest crisis in southern Kaduna, prompting agitations and rumour over an alleged government plan to relocate the schools.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Paul Dogo and that of Education, Prof. Andrew Nok, however, said at a joint press conference on Wednesday in Kaduna, that nothing of such was ever discussed by the administration.
Dogo said, “there have never been any plans or discussions whatsoever to the best of my knowledge that the College of Midwifery, College of Education and Kaduna State University would be moved out of Kafanchan.
“There was a social request that was made to the government and this was surely discussed by the security committee to permit certain students to write their examinations in the Kaduna campus.
“In the month of March and May they conducted what is referred to as hospital finals for the nursing students preparing them for their National final examination in September.
“Last Friday the preliminary trainee students just concluded their examinations that would allow us to index them.
“All these have to be done with special permission from the security committee and with additional security provided to these students to write their examinations and as soon as the security committee is satisfied with the security situations in the state, the schools will be reopened for normal activities.’’
On his part, No said the Kafanchan campus of the state university and College of Education, Gidan Waya have remained close because of security concerns.
“We have not being able to collect security clearance from the security committee that we should go ahead and reopen those institutions.
“We only thought it wise to sustain the admission for the new JAMB students; we ensured that the students were brought to Kaduna to conclude the rest of the semester.’’
He assured that the government is making efforts to reopen the institutions as soon as possible.
The commissioner disclosed work on additional infrastructure awarded by the government were going on, adding that it was a testimony that there was no plan to relocate the schools.
“We want to assure students that we are working hard and hopefully soon the security issues will be resolved so that academic activities in those campuses will resume,’’ he said.
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