Barely 24 hours after medical students of Kaduna State
University held a protest against non accreditation of their
department and lack of teaching hospital to ensure their
clinical training.
President Jonathan in Kaduna State
President Goodluck Jonathan today commissioned a nine billion
naira Governor’s Office situated inside the Kaduna Government
House built by the state government, a government source
confirmed.
The Governor's Office
The students have during the protest said the Faculty of Medicine
started in 2009 after advisory stage of accreditation by MDCN
(Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria) in 2008 failed to provide
teaching hospital until two months ago when the first set of
students admitted in 2009/2010 academic session were sent to
Uganda for clinical studies that will last three years.
They said government put tuition fee of 29 students sent to
Uganda at 150 million naira and upkeep 105 million naira totaling
255 million naira they argued could been injected into the non-
functional teaching hospital and also solve major requirements for
accreditation or at least get a partial accreditation for the students
to start clinical studies.
Announcing the total cost of the Governor’s Office, that gulped
over nine billion naira to Jonathan before the commissioning,
Governor Mukhtar Yero said “The project about to be
commissioned here today was executed in six phases at a total
cost of nine billion, six hundred and thirty six million, five hundred
and seventy eight thousand, one hundred and forty one naira, forty
one kobo “N9, 636, 578, 141, .41k).
This development confirmed how the government pays less
attention to core issues of health and education.
The project started in September 2009 when Vice President
Namadi Sambo was Kaduna State governor.
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