Ogbomoso schools suffer more wreckage as complete block of classrooms collapses at Ogbomoso Grammar School

Image caption: Collapsed Ogbomoso Grammar School building

Ogbomoso schools suffer more wreckage as complete block of classrooms collapses at Ogbomoso Grammar School

Yinka ADETUNJI

The trend of devastations in public schools in Ogbomoso area has persisted in the face of heavy rainfall.

Information reaching ogbomosoinsightonline.com indicates that more schools suffered blown roof devastation this week when incidentally schools resumed for another term.

Anglican Grammar School, Ori-Oke Community Grammar School and Nurudeen Grammar School were among the schools severely affected after rainstorms.

While the hullabaloo of that was yet to settle a whole block of classrooms collapsed this evening at Ogbomoso Grammar School.

The building containing four standard classrooms fell during a downpour, which stopped less down an hour ago.

The walls caved in leading to the roof crashing down “but thank God there is no casualty,” an eyewitness told Ogbomoso Insight.

Meanwhile, it is learnt that the building, which faces the school field, had been distressed and abandoned over time.

“We formerly used it as special unit block for the deaf students and one found use as a staff room,” a teacher of the school who however begged for anonymity said. “But it started to show signs of distress and so it was not used again. Later, iron scrap scavengers (jaribola) started to slice off the iron sheets in bits. For lack of funds the school couldn’t maintain the building. It has now totally collapsed.”

Recall early April more than ten schools were reported to have been affected by rainstorms which caused various degrees of blown roofs and collapsed walls. However, Oyo state government which owns the schools is yet to intervene by way of rehabilitation making resumption (on Monday April 27) herculean for the affected schools. There is even a particular school, Emmanuel Agboola Baptist Grammar School, whose hall has partly collapsed and the other side about to crumble as well. “So, there is fear as to where the school will sit its students for the upcoming external exams – WAEC and NECO, and a hall is imperative,” a concerned parent lamented.