– Says Kwara Camp Now Best in Nigeria
In less than five months of his unscheduled visit to the decrepit hostels of the state’s National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) camp, the Executive Governor of Kwara State, Governor AbduRahman AbdulRazaq has once again earned himself public applause as he repaired the deplorable hostels and other facilities.
The governor had on the 20 June, during his visit to the Yikpata described the facilities as “penitentiaries not fit for human living.”
The renovation came three months after his administration also supplied the facilities with 400 mattresses, 200 double-bunk beds, 100 long benches, and consumables which the government said were meant to make the camp more conducive for the corps members.
“We are really grateful to Mr Governor for keeping his words. I’m happy to inform you that the government has renovated three main hostels, including the two-in-one Mayflower hostel, and I don’t think there’s any NYSC camp in the country that has the kind of facilities we now have,” Kwara NYSC Coordinator Esther Ikupolati said.
Mrs. Ikupolati revealed that the camp hierarchy has decided to rename the Mayflower hostel as Harmony Hostel in honour of the Governor’s efforts.
AbdulRazaq had publicly pleaded with the Corps members for the condition of the facilities and said the visit spurred him to refurbish the decayed facilities.
“I apologise for the state of your accommodation. After seeing them, it is like a penitentiary. It is not fit for human living,” he had said during the visit.
“The people in charge before should have done better. By saying that, I have thrown a challenge to myself and my administration to make things better.”
Only Last week, repair of some blocks of classrooms were completed at the Special Needs School at Apata Yakuba in Ilorin, a few months after the Governor expressed his profound dissatisfaction over the dilapidated condition of the school.