The Chairman of the Yobe State Education Trust Fund (YETFund), Engineer MAK Abubakar, in an interaction with Neptune Prime, has disclosed that Honourable Mai Mala Buni, the Yobe State Governor is building eight more girls’ day senior secondary schools in the state this year.
Speaking to our reporter in his office, the chairman, who said that the project will increase the number of girls attending secondary schools, also revealed that it would serve to decongest existing schools that are overpopulated as well as curtail various cases of abuses observed in boarding schools.
Concerning this, Dr Muhammad Sani, the state’s commissioner for Basic Education, confirmed to our reporter that the schools have already started operating pending physical structures.
He disclosed that “every year about 20,000 girls fail to go beyond junior secondary schools because either their parents fear abuse or do not want them to go far from them, therefore these schools would solve this problem.”
However, the Chairman of YETFund, in the interaction, went further to say that the fund has intervened in providing necessary equipment to fourteen other schools built by the Buni administration.
The schools are seven Mega Schools with 30 classrooms and a student capacity of 1,200 and seven smaller ones with 12 classes each and a capacity of about 800. With eight more, the schools built by Governor would be 22 while having renovated about 50 others.
Engineer Abubakar also divulged that the YETFund also aims to introduce something unique to education in the state. He said, “We have to develop a population that has the fear of God in their hearts.”
He went on: “We may also have to restart something like a pivotal training and make teachers who would see teaching as a career more competent.”
They cannot achieve all these lofty ideas without funds, said the chairman, who called on those who pledged money during the education fund launching to redeem their pledges.
