By Abdullahi Yunusa with agency reports
The Kano state Government says it is focusing on education as a means of empowering the youth and a tool for social re-engineering. The state Governor, Dr. Rabi’u Kwankwaso, who stated this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, noted that education is the key to prosperity.
According to the governor “To us education is key because without education, no society, no country, no community can prosper. That is why the state government has initiated the Community Re-orientation Committees at the state level and at all the 44 local governments of Kano state.
“The committee is composed of 11 key people from each of the 44 local governments, especially the traditional ruler there, the Chief Imam of the local government, the Chairman of the PDP and the Chairman of the opposition party in the local government.
“ We didn’t want to make it look like it’s partisan. It’s something that requires the support of everybody because their work is not just for party people but for the entire people of the local government.
“We are using it to give all the kids that are entering into our primary schools, two sets of uniforms; we are using the CRC to give all the primary schools pupils lunch, because across the state now, the state government, in conjunction with the local governments and the community will give out lunch five days a week.
‘’The CRC is charged with the responsibility of rehabilitating schools; we asked the CRC to raise some money locally within the local government and in addition to that we have given them N5 million each”.
The governor said that the state was also rehabilitating old schools as well as constructing new ones to expand the horizon of opportunities for the people of the state.
“We are also in the process of establishing so many new primary and secondary schools and of course we are building brand new classrooms; so far we are targeting 1,000 classrooms which we are in the process of finishing now.
He also said that his administration was building a new university to complement the existing state owned university of science and technology.
“Now we are establishing a conventional university and that university is going to be called ‘Northwest University’ and it will be sited right at the centre of the city.
“Northwest University is to cater for the state itself and of course the other six states within the northwest and even the neighbouring states.”
Kwankwanso said his administration would establish 20 new specialised schools to further empower the youths.
He listed some of them to include the Kano Fisheries Institute, the Kano Hospitality Institute, the Kano Mechanised Agriculture Institute and the Kano Informatics Institute.
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