Nguidilone, Oct 9 (APS) – Classes have still not started in the schools of Nguidilone, a commune in the Matam region (north), due to the occupation of schools by victims of the floods that followed. to the heavy rains recorded this year.
Several other establishments are still under water, said teachers serving in this town.
“It’s still the status quo at middle school. The victims are still in this school. Classes are having difficulty starting because of the occupation of the premises, but also the roofs which were blown away by the wind,” indicated the principal of the CEM of Nguidilone, Amadou Boly, in an interview with the APS.
In addition to this, the establishments became inaccessible, due to the waters which invaded a large part of the village, added the teacher.
He reported that the road leading to the Assane Sadio Diallo high school is flooded, the Franco-Arab high school is also “totally flooded”, while school 2 in Nguidilone is still occupied by the victims who were relocated there.
“The walls of the classrooms at the Franco-Arab high school are starting to have cracks. The CEM students will not be able to start until we have evacuated the victims who are housed there,” according to Thierno Mbow, teacher in Nguidilone.
For him, it is only when the eleven families occupying the premises are moved that the students of the Franco-Arab high school will be able to start classes, while waiting for the waters to recede.
It is planned to relocate disaster victims in tents, he said, specifying that the other schools, in particular those at the primary level and the community nursery, were not affected, because they are in the middle of the village. .
According to Abdou Diaw, superintendent at the Assane Sadio Diallo high school, teachers’ accommodation located at the exit of the village, on the Matam road, also remains occupied by water.
“Many colleagues were forced to move while the waters receded from certain flooded parts of the village. The situation is less complicated in primary schools which are located in the middle of the village,” underlines the teacher.
It should be noted that the Assane Sadio Diallo high school polarizes several surrounding villages such as Somono, Aly Wouri, Kédélé.
Nguidilone, capital of the commune of the same name, was strongly affected by the overflowing of the Senegal River.
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