Declared State of emergency on Kogi Education, IFAS, PIBCID Tell Governor Yahaya Bello

Forums has called on the Kogi State Governor, Alh. Yahaya Bello to declared State of emergency in kogi State educational system.

The Inclusive Forum for Accountable Society (IFAS) has called on the Government to declare state of emergency in Kogi educational sector due to the level of dilapidation and decay of schools facilities across the State.

IFAS, an initiative of ActionAid Nigeria and its implementing partners, Participation Initiative for Behavioural Change In Development (PIBCID) made the call at its quarterly meeting on yesterday Saturday 30th November 20219 in Lokoja.

The members, said Kogi Educational sector need reform, as they expressed concerns on the statues of primary and secondary education in the state.

Hamza Aliyu, chairman of the forum and Executive Director, Initiative for Grassroots Advancement (INGRA) said the discuss centred on the education because the future of Kogi was at stake in view of the present situation of the sector.

“The problem is the quality of education and the quantum of resources put into education as well as the legal framework and evaluation system,” he said.

Aliyu also noted that the public sector screening embarked upon by the Gov. Yahaya Bello’s “New Direction” government had adverse impact on the teachers.

He said that a lot them affected by the screening exercise as a result of one problem or the other, were removed resulting in dearth of teachers, especially among schools in rural communities.

“There is a lacuna here and that gap is affecting the quality of education; our children are getting at community level,” he said.

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Earlier in her opening speech, Halima Sadiq, Actionaid Nigeria Project Manager and acting Executive Director, (PIBCID), said the state government’s annual budgetary allocations to education did not show any political will to improve the quality.

Sadiq said: “The issue of education is a very serious one. It is a known fact that ignorance breeds and remains one of the drivers of violence and we believe education is the cure.

She regretted that the state of public schools in most of the communities did not portray education as such.

The PIBCID acting Executive Director therefore, called on the state government to do the needful and declare a state of emergency in the state’s education sector.

Me John Amabi, a member of the forum noted that primary and secondary education lost the grip with introduction of the screening and therefore, urged Bello, in the new dispensation, to address the issue.

Mr Sanni Mohammed, Director Budget, Budget Office hinted that there had always been adequate budgetary provision for the education sector but the problem was that of release of the allocation for intended purposes.(NAN)

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