But the Kaduna State Government has kept mute on the matter as an official contacted declined to comment while another neither...
of illegally encroaching on the school’s land and called on appropriate authorities to intervene urgently.
Addressing journalists in Lagos on Sunday, the National President of the association, Seyi Gambo, said in 2015, via a memo addressed to the education ministry, Kaduna State had requested “no objection to excise 45 metres of land from the South-Western end of the fence inwards along the stretch of Umar Mohammed Road to provide plots for immediate development.”
The school management was said to have insisted that “allowing residential buildings near the school would expose the students and staff to insecurity.”According to Mr Gambo, after the foiled attempts of 2015, the government had stopped its “illegal efforts to claim the land until about a week ago when the government through its Ministry of Urban Planning and Development wrote again seeking excision of unutilised land along the stretch of River Kaduna for security reasons.
“This illegality is not only distasteful but pure wickedness on the part of leaders. It is an agenda to obliterate the memories of the founding fathers of this country and the only institution which is the last bastion of moulding Nigerians devoid of the things responsible for our arrested development as a nation.”
“We have benefitted from the success of our school and we will not be arms akimbo and watch some faceless leaders illegally take an inch of the land of our school. This we are told is the first of future balkanization of the perimeters of other unity schools across Nigeria.
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