24 Hours After Medical Students Protests Against Lack Of Teaching Hospital, Jonathan Commissions 9 Billion Naira Governor’s Office

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 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 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 while the work continues

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.