Saint Academy Tragedy:NAPPS President visits Jos, condole with victims
Images of NAPPS Executives and members at the Women Development Center,Jos,Plateau State
By Eagle Eye News24
The President National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools(NAPPS)Dr.Samira Jibir,has condole with the Plateau State government and victims of Saints Academy over the death of students due to building collapse .
Dr. Jibir made her remarks when members of the zonal and national executives visited Jos Plateau State in a solidarity visit.
The NAPPS President was received in audience by the Plateau State Chapter at the Women’s Development Center, Kashim Ibrahim Way in Jos by the State Chairman,Comrade Musa Umar.
Eagle Eye News24 reports that the solidarity visit also extended to a visit to the Plateau State Commissioner for Education.
In her remarks to members of NAPPS Plateau State ,Dr. Jibir urged the chapter to prioritize safety precaution and charge them to actualize their 7 point agenda.
She also prayed for the victims and those affected in different ways.
“We prayed that God grant them succour,strength and comfort to carry on.
We must realize that it is our mandate and duty to ensure safety measures in our schools. I’m glad that the state chairperson and it’s members have actually brought up a 7- point agenda to address such issues .Please let it not just be an agenda on words,we must implement them “.
Similarly,the State Chairperson NAPPS,Comrade Musa Umar,commended the visit of the zonal national executives for their show of solidarity and love.
“We have our national zonal executives with us and we work in synergy.It’s the more reason they have come to commiserate and to comfort us.
We are a very strong association and what has happened cannot make all the private schools to close.
We have not been in contact with the proprietors of Saints Academy to find out their position exactly but very soon we will have time with them to see the way forward”.
He was also optimistic that the association will come out strongly.
“We have a lot of plans for private schools Proprietors in the state.
What has happened is a big lesson.We are not going to rest on our oars,we shall certainly come out with measures of safety in our schools “.
The high point of the visit of the NAPPS national president was the donation of cash to victims of Saints Academy building collapse and visit to the site of the collapse structure.
Speaking on the donation at the site of the school, NAPPS president,Dr.Jibir,said:
“There are some victims in the hospital,they will definitely have needs .We just felt that token will care for some needs “.
Recall that the Saint Academy building collapse last Friday killing 22 persons with hundred hospitalised in Jos,Plateau State.
