….As Team Visits Karaye and Rano Emirates
By Rabiu Sanusi
In preparations of the official declaration of State of Emergency on Education by the administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, Kano State Ministry of Education has commenced sensitization campaign aimed at educating public on the new education policy.
This was contained in a statement by public relation officer of the ministry Malam Balarabe Kiru made availabale to Newsmen on Friday.
A powerful team under the leadership of the State Commissioner of Education had today visited Karaye and Rano Emirates to sensitize people of the areas about government’s plan of declaring state of emergency on education.
Speaking at the Palace of His Highness the Emir Karaye Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar II, the State Commissioner of Education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa announced that on the 6th May, 2024, Kano State Government would declare state of emergency on the education sector.
The Commissioner stated that with this declaration, education would henceforth take a lead, as first line sector that receives government priorities being the bedrock of human development.
Under this policy said Doguwa, government would commence mass renovations of schools, training and retraining of teachers and provision of instructional materials for onward distribution to schools.
He maintained that the declaration had become necessary considering the deplorable condition in which the state education sector found itself.
” Your Highness, when we came, we discovered that the education sector is fully characterized with problems and challenges that need to be addressed to save it from total collapse.
” To do this, we need to come out with policies and programmes geared towards overhauling the education sector. One of such effort made was the distribution of teaching materials to schools and recruitment of BESDA teachers across the state.”
According to the Commissioner, the state had renovated over 120 schools and improved school feeding programme, adding that very soon government would launch massive distribution of school chalks and other instructional materials to schools across the state.
While taking the advocacy campaign to Rano Emirate, Commissioner Doguwa stressed the need for the Emirs, District, Village and Ward Heads to join hands in sensitizing people on the importance of sending their kids to school to improve pupils enrollment in the state.
In their separate remsks, their Highness the Emir of Karaye Alhaji Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar II and Emir of Rano Ambassador Alhaji Kabir Muhammad Inuwa have assured of the Emirates readiness to sensitize their people on any education policy initiated by the government.
The Emirs how ever applauded the present administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf of its new initiatives which focused on revitalizing the education sector.
On vocational training programmes, the Emirs commended the government for what it has been doing to address the current stage of unemployment that characterized the nation.
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