Dino Melaye, senator representing
Kogi west, on Wednesday condemned the burning down of a block of four
classrooms he donated to Government Girls Secondary School, Sarki Noma, Lokoja.
Melaye, who spoke with
journalists shortly after inspecting the burnt section of the classroom block
at the school premises, described the incident as barbaric and uncivilised.
He also condemned the
vandalisation of a block of four classrooms he built at UBE Junior Secondary
School at Lokongoma area in Lokoja by hoodlums, urging the police to bring the
perpetrators to book.
Melaye said the action of the
hoodlums was an embarrassment to the state that was well respected for its
exploits in education in northern Nigeria.
He wondered why some people would
want to bring down the state for :selfish reasons”, pleading with the hoodlums
and their sponsors to stop smearing the image of the state.
Melaye promised to rebuild and
repair the burnt and damaged blocks of classrooms, saying that no amount of
intimidation and harassment would divert his attention from providing
qualitative representation to the people.
He also said that the incident
would not stop his planned one-week thank you tour of the senatorial district
and inauguration of some of the 143 projects he had executed in the past three
years at a cost of N7 billion.
The senator later inaugurated the
two blocks of four classrooms be built at LGEA Primary School, Tawari, and LGEA
primary School, Manyare, the 10- kilometre Manyare -Gegu Beki road and the
15-kilometre Orehi – Irovomi road, all in Kogi local government.
He charged the people of the
communities where the projects were located to protect them from vandals and
make the best use of them.
Melaye, who also inaugurated a
borehole he built at Felele area of Lokoja, said other projects to be
inaugurated in the next few days include classroom blocks , rural roads,
boreholes, skills acquisition centres as well as rural electrification schemes.
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