Kebbi State Governor, Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu has restated his commitment to adequately fund education at all levels in the state.
Bagudu spoke on Wednesday in Birnin Kebbi when he received a delegation on Better Education Service Delivery for All, BESDA, Implementation Support team from Abuja.
He expressed satisfaction about the success recorded in returning out of school children back to the classes in the State under the project.
The governor acknowledged the importance to logically and judiciously deploy resources to achieve better results.
According to him, the myriad of interventions by the federal and Kebbi state governments had positively upped the fortunes of the education sector in the state.
He noted, ” these interventions had really helped to arrest the hitherto high level of decay in the educational institutions in the State.
He acknowledged that BESDA had also enabled the state to do what it should have done earlier as a wake up call.
Bagudu also expressed delight that SUBEB in the state has been doing very well, promising that more will be done.
The governor also said that Kebbi was successfully implementing many intervention projects with the federal government, world bank and other agencies.
He averred also that education planning depended on statistics and directed those in charge to be mindful of the sanctity of data .
The team leader, Dr. Bala Zakari, Deputy Executive Secretary Technical UBEC, Abuja said BESDA was a result oriented project under the Federal Ministry of Education, adding that it ends next month.
He said that it is a four-year programme that had received tremendous support from the Kebbi State Government.
Zakari also lauded the state for the invaluable support and cooperation it gave during the just concluded National Personnel Audit.
He said that BESDA targets out of school children, with a view to returning them to schools.
Dr Dabo Adamu, the National Implementation Adviser, BESDA, Stated that Kebbi was now one of the best BESDA states in the country.
He said that was why the state government earned $5miliion after the first NBS verification exercise, adding, ” the state will earn more during the forthcoming second leg of the exercise.
He requested governor Bagudu to improve financial support to Kebbi SUBEB to achieve optimum result.
Kebbi State SUBEB Chairman, Prof. Suleiman Khalid, said that 86,000 out of school children were returned to schools in 2021 in the state.
Similarly, in 2022 , it is planned that 750,000 of such children will be returned to the schools.
“These, among others, were some of the incredible achievements we have recorded sequel to the sustained support of
Bagudu,” he averred.
The Kebbi State Coordinator of BESDA, Professor Abdullahi Bagudo accompanied the delegation on the visit to Government House which was also attended by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG Babale Umar Yauri
