Gov. Inuwa lays foundation for building of Tsangaya Mega School in Gombe
Story from Ahmed SAKA, Bauchi
The Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has laid the foundation for the building of Tsangaya Mega School under the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) programme in the state.
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Governor Inuwa, during the foundation laying ceremony on Thursday at Tsangayar Goni Sani, reiterated the commitment of his administration to transform Tsangaya education in the state.
After the ceremony, the Governor held an interactive session with the traditional Qur’anic school teachers and the theme of the interactive session is “Towards Transforming Tsangaya System to the Needs of the 21st Century”.
Governor Inuwa said the aim of the interactive session is to equip the Tsangaya teachers to improve their skills in order to meet the needs of teaching in the 21st century, as part of an effort to transform the system.
He commended the successes recorded under the BESDA programme in the state saying, “under the BESDA programme, 676 learning centres for boys and girls were established, 170,000 pupils and girl-child enrolled in the centres, 1600 NCE teachers were employed to teach western education in the state and 15,000 Tsangaya school proprietors receive allowances and the government is working to improve the allowances of the Alarammas.”
The Governor commended traditional Qur’anic school owners for their support to the programme and said that many Islamic countries came up with policies that eased the learning process in Tsangaya schools, “their students learn both western and Islamic education”.
He said, “We value and cherish traditional Tsangaya education as it is the oldest, but because of modernisation, we have to do our best to improve them to attain the highest standard.”
The Governor said that the students apart from learning how to memorise the Qur’an, will be introduced to English and arithmetic studies to learn western education.
He recalled saying, “UNICEF said we have 550 out of school children, but I said their number is higher than that because there are areas they didn’t visit, even in those areas, we have many out of school children that they didn’t count.
Mrs Amina Buba Haruna, Coordinator of BESDA at the Federal Ministry of Education, commended the Gombe State government for transforming the Almajiri system by giving them special recognition and changing their status through BESDA programmers.
She said, “Almajiri are our children, we need to support them, interact with them and help them to get a brighter future.”
The Guest Speaker at the occasion, Professor Bashir Galadanchi urged Tsangaya school owners to continue to embrace government policies and programmes aimed at developing the skills and capacity of their pupils towards the improvement of the standard of living.
Professor Bashir advised Quranic teachers and pupils to learn the skills they need to succeed in tomorrow’s competitive world by rethinking yesterday’s teaching practices.
The scholar urged the government and the society to support Qur’anic schools to enable them to excel in today’s society, even as he urged the government to provide social amenities to its citizenry.
The Gombe State Project Coordinator of BESDA, Dr Abdullahi Bappah Ahmed Garkuwa, commended the Governor for his support towards the development of education in the state.
Dr Garkuwa advised participants to cooperate more with laudable programmes of BESDA to improve the education of their children.
He stressed the importance of seeking Quranic education and urged the Tsangaya school proprietors to embrace all educational programmes that come for the development of society.
He said western education introduced in schools under BESDA programmes are aimed at providing technical and skilled knowledge that will improve the living standard of the society.
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