Announcing the decision after the state executive council meeting
presided over by Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in Sokoto, the state
commissioner of finance, Alhaji Saidu Umar, said henceforth, extra
ordinary measures will be implemented within a defined time-frame to
achieve desired result.
He said statistics on education in Sokoto was not only worrisome, but
regrettable, adding that with the new policy in place, government hopes
to reverse the negative trend for the benefit of the state.
"Our objective is to improve enrollment at all stages---basic,
secondary and tertiary. By the end of this programme, we will ensure
that our quotas in all federal schools are filled.
"We hope to improve quality of teachers by training and retraining, and
recruitment of new ones. Any teacher whose capacity did not improve
after the training will be reassigned to where his ability will be
better needed.The ultimate aim is to improve human capital capacity in
the sector, eliminate inequality in access and radically improve
numeracy and literacy," he added.
The commissioner said other measures to be implemented include focusing
on infrastructure by building new schools where necessary and improving
on existing ones.Other decisions reached at the council meeting include rendering of emergency assistance to 20,000 rice, onion, wheat and tomato farmers to mitigate the effect of last season's flood.
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