By Rabilu Abubakar, Gombe,
Former Nigerian Ambassador to Republic of Cuba and philanthropist, Ibrahim Gwani has touched the lives of Agangaro Community in Gwani ward of Yamaltu Deba LGA of Gombe State by constructing a block of two classrooms which serves as a Nomadic and conventional school.
Agangaro Community is a village located somewhere in Gwani ward in Yamaltu Deba LGA that has a population of over one thousand households, and has many villages around with no social amenities such as access road, schools, maternity and water.
Ambassador Ibrahim Gwani’s philanthropic gesture has reached the communities where he constructed a school and many others to make communities have a sense of belonging.
During the commissioning and handing over of the school to the state government Ambassador Gwani expressed hope that the school constructed as well as the social amenities provided will benefit Agangaro community and the villages around.
He said schools are very important for learning without which learning will be difficult to impact knowledge for the leaders of tomorrow.
Gwani called on the community leaders to put more effort on enrolling their children and not to waste the schools or resources that have been put.
“Before I build the school, people of the area gathered their children under the tree and hire Islamic and western teachers from Gwani and thought them and provide the land for farming to them and also give them a token of fifteen thousand naira at the end of the month”.
When I saw their effort, I consulted them and constructed the school and named it Abubakar Primary School where Fulanis and other communities enrolled their children which now has a total number of 350 pupils.
He therefore called on the government to consider the school as a government own school and provide learning materials and upgrade the school since he has done the necessary things.
He added that in the beginning, government was not thinking of the community or constructing the school because, for them.
Ambassador Gwani used the medium to advise the government that when sending teachers to the community, they should be screened before given the offer because at times, some teachers are not qualified. He also appealed to the Government to consider the two volunteer teachers that taught before the school was constructed.
In her remarks, Professor of Botany in the Gombe state University, Professor Halima Abba, promised to contribute her quarter towards the development of the school.
Professor Halima promised that when the pupils graduate, she will do all she can to see that they proceed to secondary or higher institutions because she sees the leaders of tomorrow among them.
A representative of SUBEB, Sani Sabo said already, government would receive the structured and make it a government owned school adding that since the inception of this government, Governor Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, declared a state of emergency on education to allow every parent to enrolled their child in school.
Sani Sabo also said they received the report of over five hundred thousand out of school children but that with the intention of educating every child, Governor Inuwa brought back over 250 children in school through the BESDA programme.
In his goodwill message the chairman of Gwani Community Development Association, Alhaji Ibrahim Dauda, lauded Ambassador Gwani’s gesture of wiping their tears and promised that the community would compensate him when times come.
He calls on the government to link the community with road networks and maternity and also give the community easy access to marketplaces to enable them to take their farm products.
The roads would also help them, when they’re taking pregnant women to hospital, they would not suffer much.
When interviewed, the village head of Agangaro community, Alhaji Tukur Adamu, commended Ambassador Ibrahim Gwani for constructing the school in the community.
Some pupil’s interview also commended what Ambassador Ibrahim Gwani did to their Community just as they thanked and prayed to Allah SWT to reward him abundantly. They called on wealthy individuals to emulate him.
