SHOCKING! There Is 1 Toilet To 160 Pupils In Katsina
The United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) says the toilet-pupil ratio in public primary schools in Katsina State is ‘’one toilet per 161 pupils’’ (1:161) on the average.
Mr Muntaka Mukhtar, the UNICEF Katsina State Education Specialist, disclosed this on Thursday in Katsina while presenting the state’s Annual School Census for 2015/2016.
Mukhtar put the primary schools enrollment in the state at 1,549,157 sharing a total of 9,631 toilets across the 34 local government areas of the state with Bakori Local Government Area having the highest number of primary schools with 476 toilets being used by 76,587 pupils.
Mukhtar also disclosed that only 36 per cent of the schools had source of water, while the remaining 64 per cent had none at all and 696 primary schools had no health facility.
He pointed out that UNICEF was ready to provide 500 water and sanitation facilities in primary schools in the state in 2017, aid to improve environmentl and personal hygiene which will prevent outbreak of diseases.
He further explained that the state had a total of 13,611 teachers, representing 70 per cent of qualified teachers, out of which 10,117 were males, and 3,494 were females.
He said that the pupil-classroom ratio for the state was 113 pupils per classroom.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Annual School Census (ASC) is conducted to generate accurate and reliable data for education planning purposes.
UNICEF provides both technical and financial support to conduct the census.
(NAN)
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