Wani Yaro!😃😃😃
That moment when this scream scares the hell out of you!!

Kim Jerry Bot
PHARMACIST (KOSA Set ’02).

A moving train defines Government Science School Kuru.
A giant stride explains resilience of every student who went through Kuru.
A unique but robust outfit built in personalities exemplifies every young male who spent at least a night in the jungle of Kuru.

MY STORY

September 18th, 1996 was the day I stepped into that school, having enjoyed a ride on my daddy’s Honda Bentley Super bike… Noise from the exhaust pipe along with my ‘gongoro’ box topples the overwhelming joy in my heart to move from primary to secondary school.

My 10-year-old self was very smallish and highly insignificant in size, yet my dearest dad was determined to kick me to the top through an indomitable ladder called GSS Kuru… Indeed, himself too, finished from there in 1979.

Boom!
I landed on a Wednesday. It was a General Work day😅😅😅

While my dad was busy with my registration, the school was already thrown into confusion because of a popular Taroh Labor Prefect we met, Gwakchang Banda aka Sir G, no wonder he’s in the military now.

As confused as I was, I received a first touch of slap from his hardened and callused hands… I wept bitterly!

I told my dad I wanna leave… He said, Never, I’ll survive it…. A phrase that kept me till I was done.

Amidst dwindling moments, I was admitted into JSS 1B… I met awesome friends, of course it was a boys school, great teachers, highly intellectual ones… I don’t know if we can find such today and of course great non-academic staff at the store, dining hall, etc.

As a jungle, oboy na so my mattress and bucket take loss that day oo🤣🤣🤣😃😃😃

I immediately reported and was given a school mattress for free. I held it with my all.

One thing that kept me going was the phrase from my dad “…. you’ll survive it.”

BROKAGE AND WATER SCARCITY 🤣🤣

February each year remains a very bad month for us all.

Brokage gets to us like mad. We dey even sell our soap and toothpaste for food😃…

We travel kilometers just to return with a bucket of water and your senior will simply ask you to drop it for him. Na so we go stay fa.

We were simply adopted by a famous pond called “Tuwon Barba”. We swim in that unhealthy water, pick up all sorts of slippery worms… We thank God kawai.

PREPS

This is why we came to Kuru (Papa Lewis).

Two sessions of preps were our bane:

Afternoon Preps. Night Preps. They were all compulsory, in fact everything was compulsory in Kuru, including going to K-City 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Afternoon preps were meant foe revising all you’ve studied through the day. Some laboratory sessions were taken through that moment like Integrated Science, Chemistry, Technical Drawing and Physics practical classes. Some however used it to sleep in the hostel… At your own risk though.🤣🤣🤣

Night preps… The day you have garri mixed with sugar without water, na that day night prep go sweet you😃

If you’re assigned to write names of noise makers, e don set for you.

We still studied and took our assignments for the next day… Maths Assignment 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc… Jeltin geng🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

DINNING

Cornmeal remains my best meal… Funny enough it was made only on Wednesdays, and maybe Saturdays so that so many students who loved it like myself can be trapped for G-Work 😅😅😅

Black and yellow soups… Oboy, no comment! You go just wan vomit especially if you have Garri in the hostel.

Pap…. I rushed a hot one with no sugar, milk, ‘kwaks’ or turnbrown added to it😅😅😅… I was running back to class when piss come catch me… Na so I just wan piss fa, then one subprefect knack me akpako… Piss just cease one time…. Thank God.

PTAs and VISITING DAYS

While some parents maintained consistency in visiting their wards, others skipped visits in an alternate fashion and others don’t show up at all… I belong to the last group…. Popsy sabi come on odd days ehnnn…

If they don’t visit you or you parent misses PTA meetings, no ‘home gratch’ for you. Na so we go dey follow people up and down ooo. We made new friends eventually 😃😃😃😃

ASSEMBLY AND CHECKING POINT

Hmmmm … Avoid trouble when the LIONS are on duty🤣🤣🤣🤣

We fit shout comot our throats dey answer YES SIR….NO SIR🤣🤣🤣🤣

DODGING 🤣🤣

We die here😅😅😅

FCS & MSS

We fit use am dodge, but that’s the only platform we obtain grace.

We run to report wicked seniors to God…. Damn it! It worked walahi🤣🤣🤣🤣

TWO MEASURES OF RICE AND BEANS..

Na so we go just dey cook our thing for celing then make it up with sand😅😅😅
Oh God forgive us..

PalitoCrew🤣🤣🤣

INSPECTION

Death sentence for so many 😅
We still made it.

BLACK MARKET

Unless, you’re the Health Prefect or his friend, just pray you don’t eat poison🤣
Koskoro was just wooow….

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Forget all these, we were all good!🙏🙏🙏🙏
You must be good to be good enough to play with us on books, on the field and otherwise. 🙏🙏

GRATITUDE

Today, I am a Pharmacist because the six years I spent in Kuru made sense to me. I know my classmates, seniors, juniors and friends will say same. Amidst a total of breeds, good and bad ones exists… In Kuru, the good ones surpass, we bless God.

I am aware of an uncountable figure of individuals that Kuru has brought to the world to create impact, including myself.

One thing about us is RESILIENCE…. SS DANGFA… God bless your soul.

We appreciate our wonderful teachers, the ones we love, the ones we hate, the ones we quietly crushed on, the ones we looked down upon… God bless you all.

We have always had a GUIDING STAR!

My loyalty!
Gracias!!

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KURU @ 80 A Blessing to Nigeria: “I told my Dad I Wanna Leave… He said, Never, I’ll survive it…. A Phrase That Kept Me Till I Was Done” – Pharm. Kim Jerry Bot