The contractor handling the renovation work at the female and male hostels in the University of Calabar, Mr Signor Kanu, has given assurance that the work would be delivered on time and according to specification.
This is as the university has announced February 5 as date of resumption for academic activities.
While conducting newsmen round the ongoing work around the hostels, Kanu said that the decay was too much, couple with the destruction that occurred during the #EndSars protest where armored cables and other electrical installations were equally destroyed.
He explained that before the end of January, the renovation would have been completed and the environment kept clean for students to come in.
“Work is going on at a speed, the protectors are being pulled out and replaced with a more sophisticated angle bar so that the security of the students can be guaranteed.
“We are working day and night, as you can see now, the lights are on. The standard of materials being used is guaranteed and we are working together with the Works Department of the school to deliver quality work to the school management.
“The safety tank is being removed, we are evacuating the sewage and other things. The assurance is that students will resume and get relaxed into a newer hostels.
“All the cabinets are being fixed, the wooden doors are being replaced with metal ones and their jam-lock. A conducive environment for students to read and be in good health is what is paramount to us,” he said.
Mr Kanu, who is also an alumni of the University of Calabar, said he is working with passion, adding that he wants to fix the hostel into what it used to be when he was a student.