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Edo Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has stated that his administration would renovate and income cases, reconstruct 100 schools across the state to mark his first 100 days in office.

The feat, the governor reiterated, is part of his desire to make an immediate impact by embarking on projects that would have direct impact on the residents of the state.

The Chairman, Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Mrs Onomen Goodness Brigg, stated this when she, alongside the member representing Edo South on the Board, Mrs Angela Okpamen, visited some schools in the Edo South Senatorial District of the state.

Brigg also called on communities where schools are located, parents, and residents to help check vandalism of schools’ facilities adding that Governor Okpebholo was already including fencing of all the schools his administration would work on.

The Edo SUBEB boss visited Ebo Primary School in Iyekhogba and Ore-Oghene Primary school both in Oredo Local Government Area and Evbareke Junior Secondary School, Use Junior Secondary School and Okhekhugbo Primary school in Egor Local Government Area, where she said all the renovation and reconstruction works would be competed between one week to three weeks.

According to her, “Security is one major issue we have to look into and we also have to sensitise the communities so that they can put an eye on these properties because the children are the ones that will suffer if these facilities are destroyed.

“If these thefts and vandalism continue, we need to sensitise the people and the community, everybody involved, the teachers, and the pupils and students so that if they see anything they can say something.

“Fences are part of the security arrangement. So, we are also going to make sure that these schools have fences and security posts so that you can only come into the compound through the security post into the school. This is also key to us and the governor has already started. Most of the construction going on, fencing is part of what he is looking at.”

Briggs added: “We did five today, we have a hundred currently going on all across the state, we are going to Edo Central and Edo North within the week.

“The construction and the renovation include furnishing, so the chairs and the tables are already part of it. You can’t put a new wine in an old wine skin. You can’t get new chairs and tables and put them in a dilapidated building. We need the buildings to be good and okay then furniture can go in.

“Some of them will be completed in one week, some less than a week and then two week and maximum three weeks,” she assured.