The Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, has commended the Old Students Association of Community Secondary School, formerly Boys Secondary School, Nnokwa in Idemili South Local Government Area for embarking on projects aimed at revamping decaying infrastructure in their alma mater.
Professor Omenugha, was speaking while inaugurating the Assembly Hall and Refectory of the school, renovated by the Old Students, through the support of Sir Simon Ukpaka and Dr Obiora Chukwuka.
The Commissioner explained that government cannot bear the entire cost of education, and enjoined other schools’ old boys and girls to emulate the Community Secondary School, Nnokwa.
She however pleaded that the Examination Hall be equipped with standard flat tables, to ensure malpractice free examinations by students.
The Association’s President, on behalf of the Old Students immediately pledged to provide the two hundred and fifty thousand naira needed to equip the hall with the recommended tables and chairs.
The old students association also used the occasion to hand over more than twenty different scholarship awards to students of the school who are doing well in various subjects of interest to them.
Earlier, in their different speeches, the two sons of Nnokwa who financially supported the project, Sir Simon Ukpaka, and Dr Obiora Chukwuka, spoke of the need for old students to give back to their alma mater.
The duo, who are also National Patrons of the Community Secondary School Nnokwa Old Students Association, charged the school authorities and students to put the structures into maximal use.
The Principal of the school, Mrs Justina Maduabuchi, had in her appreciation speech thanked the old students for their thoughtfulness, adding that they have enlivened the spirit of the younger students towards education.
The event was also attended by the Secretary State Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Mrs Josephine Onuorah, Ogidi Zonal Director of Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Dr Uche ChigboOkeke, as well as Ogidi Zonal Director of Anambra State Universal Basic Education, Mrs Ogochukwu Aloekwe, and the member of the Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Ogidi zone, Dr Agbasimelo.
Highlights of the event were the inauguration of the projects, as well as awards of recognition, to the Commissioner, the national patrons, and a posthumous award to late Alphonsus Ndubisi, the late pioneer principal of the school, which was received by his wife, and one of his sons, Nnaemezie.
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