Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has strengthened partnership with the Nigeria Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) to ensure quality building construction in basic education facilities in Nigeria.
To this end, the organizations organised training for relevant officials to ensure proper deployment of modern tools for the supervision of several building projects across its facilities.
Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, who addressed the participants at the training event in Abuja, on Monday, said the government has vowed to crack-down on substandard school building construction across the country.
He urged the stakeholders including the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) to leverage the opportunity to ensure quality in the delivery of school building projects using simple tools for on-the-spot assessment at project sites.
Dr. Bobboyi said the Commission will no longer condone shoddy execution of projects, warning contractors about the risks of delivering substandard school infrastructure in the country.
He restated the commitment of the Commission working with SUBEBs to improve the quality of educational structures in order to ensure a safe and conducive learning environment for Nigerian children.
He also disclosed that the Commission would deploy monitors who would frequently go to find out what is going on across the construction sites, and maintained that educational infrastructures are sensitive projects that must be handled with ultimate sense.
