Government Secondary School Burra in Ningi Local Government Areaof Bauchi is to benefit from a facelift and intervention from its former
students in a resuscitation drive they planned for the school.This was disclosed during the Annual General Meeting of GSSBurra Old Students Association (BOBA) which took place at SDI Conference Hall,Ningi.
Speaking during the meeting, Chairman of the AssociationAlhaji Adamu Hashimu who is the Permanent Secretary Bauchi State GovernmentHouse said that the Association will look at the problems bedeviling the schooland prepare modalities in which old students of the School will contribute insolving them by initiating projects to modernise the school.
Also Speaking, Professor of Samaila Idi Ningi from AbubakarTafawa Balewa University said GSS Burra has done everything to their lives,thus they must give back to the School.
He pledged to do everything possible to restore the pastglories of the School.
The Principal of the School Malam Musa Ahmad Reza explainedthat the School is a shadow of former self compared to what it used to be inthe 80s.
He said the school is faced with problems such as lack ofadequate teachers, hostels, learning materials and dilapidated school quarters.
Malam Musa added that currently the Ministry of Educationdid not admit any student to GSS Burra in 2019, a situation he described as frighteningto parents.
Member representing Warji Constituency in the Bauchi StateHouse of Assembly Hon. Yunusa Ahmad who is also an alumnus of the school saidthe meeting was a rare opportunity to meet people he hasn’t met for the past 35years.
“Being one of the leaders of this Association, I amready to offer myself for any service to serve GSS Burra because if we didn’thelp the school which produced us, history will judge us” he said.
On the information that the Secondary School might bede-boarded by the Ministry of Education, Hon. Yunusa Ahmad said the old boys ofthe school will do everything possible to ensure that didn’t happen.
GSS Burra which was established in 1979 and has producedmany prominent Nigerians including professors, doctors, federal and statelawmakers, permanent secretaries and many people who excelled in differentwalks of life, among whom, the current Speaker of the Bauchi state House ofAssembly.
