Rep Atu equips Enugu colleges with mobile smart laboratories

The Member Representing Enugu North/South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Chimaobi Atu, has renovated and installed three mobile smart science laboratories in three secondary schools of the constituency.

The colleges are, Comprehensive Secondary School, Akwuke; Comprehensive College Ugwuaji- Awkunawu and Day Secondary school Independence Layout Enugu.

The lawmaker also donated other laboratory items such as long laboratory tables, stools, customised laboratory self-learn guide booklets, laboratory coats and other laboratory consumables to the schools.

Unveiling the laboratories differently at the three schools, Rep Atu said that Nigeria's children need to compete very well with their counterparts in the international communities.

He said that one of the challenges of his own generation is how they can effectively hand over batten to the younger generation with impactful amenities.

"We want to make impacts that generations will remember. We're handing over battens to those who will hand it over to the next generation for the better. Our children deserve the best because they are among the most intelligent creations of God," Atu said.

Speaking at at the unveiling of the laboratory at Day Secondary school Independence Layout Enugu, Atu stressed that tomorrow belongs to the next generation of the society who deserve all the knowledge to fortify them with the global competition ahead.

Noting that it was a give back to the society, Atu urged the students and their teachers to make judicious use of the facilities, disclosing that the laboratories came with maintenance culture.

At the Comprehensive Secondary School, Akwuke, Rep Atu said that the three smart mobile laboratories covered full package of laboratory equipment and consumables for Chemistry, Physics and Biology subjects for experimental practicals.

According to him, “we have conducted a research and discovered that most of our schools lack modern and functional laboratories and students studing these vital science subjects are deficient in practical aspects of these subjects.

“Everyone knows that science, technology and innovation rules the world in every dimension you look at it and we want our students to excel in science, technology and innovation and join their counterparts in developed countries of the world.

“The move today, will also prepare them face challenges of competing with their contemporaries anywhere in the world as I have interacted and seen that they are brilliant but lack basic amenities to bring the best out of them,” he said.

Principal of the Day Secondary school Enugu, Mrs Ethel Onoh disclosed that Rep Atu had previously given free education to students, donated entrepreneural equipment before the mobile smart laboratory.

Senior science teachers in the schools said that they were moulding minds that would produce such equipment in the future through innovation and technology, admitting that the renovated and smart mobile laboratories would ensure effective teaching of science subjects as the students can feel, touch, observe and personally carry out practical experiments.

The Senior Prefects in the three different colleges gave appreciations to Rep Atu for his interventions that would make great impact on the science students and improvement on results from science students of the school.

The Traditional Ruler of Akwuke Uwani Community, Igwe C. A. Ekwomchi, assured the lawmaker that the community would use all resources at its disposal to protect the smart mobile laboratories, existing renovated laboratories, other items and consumables.