Site Inspection: Officers from Ministry of Education visiting newly completed SK pulau Seduku. Photograph courtesy of Wan Abdillah Edruce.
KUCHING: School will begin in less than a week, but parents of pupils studying at Sekolah Kebangsaan Pulau Seduku are still in the dark about the fate of their children.
“On December 19, a senior officer from Ministry of Education visited the school and discussed with the school management on power supply, water supply, increasing teachers’ quarters from three to eight and building hostel for 20 students.
“District Education Officer, Vivien Mujah also told the school administration that they will be moving to the new school next schooling term,” PTA chairman Datuk Wan Abdillah Edruce told The Borneo Post.
Unfortunately, until today, the school authority has not received any written instruction to move to the new school.
“The PTA has made our stand not to send students to the old school, especially during the current weather condition,” stressed Wan Abdillah.
Wan Abdillah stressed that the PTA have also written to state education department director over the matter but has yet to get any response from her.
Minister of Works Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof once told The Borneo Post that the long-delayed SK Pulau Seduku project in Sri Aman will be completed before the end of this year as the main contractor has assured they will hand over the school in three weeks’ time.
The assurance was given by a director of the main contractor Iris Corporation Berhad who requested anonymity.
Fadillah had stressed that the project was not under the purview of his ministry, but he is taking the initiative out of concern for the safety of the school children.
The new Pulau Seduku primary school is located in the new settlement and if it is not completed, the children will have to brave strong winds and choppy crocodile-infested waters to cross the river to go to the old school on the island.