KWSG spends N14bn in four years to transform education sector, says Commissioner.
By Mahmood Olayinka Alaya
Kwara State Government has invested over N14bn to transform over six hundred schools across the state.
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Saadatu Modibbo Kawu, said this on Tuesday while featuring on “ Viewpoint”, a Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Radio Kwara Chapel Interactive session.
Hajia Saadatu Kawu also submitted that the present administration also embarked on massive infrastructural transformation in all the sixteen local government areas of the state.
She confirmed that the state government initiated the KwaraLEARN programme to digitize teaching and learning process in schools.
According to her, Kwara celebrated the first year anniversary of the result-yielding intervention programme on Tuesday, covering ten out of the sixteen local government areas.
The Commissioner explained that KwaraLEARN is currently operational in eight hundred and seventy three schools across the state.
Mrs. Modibo-Kawu affirmed that the technology-driven initiative is already repositioning teaching and learning method in schools to guarantee quality assurance.
The Commissioner also confirmed that efforts of the present administration within its first tenure are already manifesting positively with increased enrolment of students in public schools by forty percent.
She explained that for the first time in the history of the state, the state government adopted highly competitive and transparent recruitment process to engage about four thousand teachers, especially in core subject areas.
Speaking on boarding schools system, Hajia Saadatu Kawu assured Kwarans that the age-long tradition would be revisited alongside the school exchange programme.
She said “teachers were also encouraged to use Yoruba and similar community languages to teach students where necessary to foster better understanding in the classrooms. The essence of teaching is to impart knowledge and the use of mother tongue would always be encouraged for teaching and learning”.
Hajia Modibo Kawu expressed delight that the number of out-of-school children had drastically reduced in the state.
Declaring the event open, Chairman, State Council of the NUJ, Comrade Abdul-lateef Lanre Ahmed, said Governor Abdulrazaq actually picked the right person in Hajia Saadat Modibo-Kawu as the Commissioner for Education and Human Development, considering the sensitive and critical nature of the sector for accelerated growth.
Ahmed therefore, described the appointment of the Commissioner as a right peg inside the right hole.
Earlier, Chairman, NUJ, Radio Kwara Chapel, Mallam Abdul-Hameed Funsho Alaiye noted that education is critical towards developing other areas of human endeavour and such informed the appearance of Hajia Sa’adatu Modibbo-Kawu on the Rostrum of Honour to enumerate the achievements of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq in the sector within the first term in office.
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