— Education
It is often said that education is a compulsory catalyst for nation-building and so education is the right of every Nigerian-child. For this reason, the Federal Government has made it compulsory for every child to be educated and went further to stipulate penalties against parents who frustrate their children’s education vide an Act of the National Assembly.
It is therefore a foremost responsibility for mandate custodians to ensure that all children of school age are educated up the University level irrespective of their family background or the financial status of their parents.
Our Senatorial District is populated by Nigerians whose income fall below the poverty lines and as a result education suffers endemic setbacks. It is a known fact that two pressing challenges confront our educational system today. These are:
(a) Inadequate Infrastructures:
Classrooms, furniture and instructional materials in our schools are grossly inadequate and even the existing ones are in deplorable and dreadful state of dilapidation.
(b) Lack of Sponsorship Ability of Most Parents:
Most parents lack financial ability to sponsor their children in higher institutions of learning because of penury. In addition to ensuring that all ties of government discharge their educational responsibilities to my constituents effectively, I will in the light of the identified challenges make personal contribution towards the advancement of education in this Senatorial District.
Between January 2008 and December 2009 I will undertake renovation of two blocks of 3-classrooms in each of the five local government areas under my domain.
Beside intervention in classrooms provision, I will evolve a scholarship scheme for the benefit of undergraduate students who are facing harsh difficulty in sponsorship. It is my intension that three (3) students from the respective 52 council wards in the zone will benefit from the scheme. This scheme will run for two academic sessions of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.
To come to terms with the current drive for globalization vide information and communication technology, the Federal Government by way of constituency projects is establishing computer centers in two secondary schools for each local government area of our zone. This project will be executed this 2008 budget year. The locations in our local government areas are as follows:
- Wukari Local Government Area:
- Government Secondary School, Wukari
- Government Day Seconday School, Gindin-Dorowa
- Ibi Local Government Area:
- Government Secondary School, Ibi
- Government Day Secondary School, Sarkin-Kudu
- Donga Local Government Area:
- Government Science Secondary School, Donga
- Government Day Secondary School, Mararraba
- Takum Local Government Area:
- Mbiya Government Secondary School, Takum
- Government Day Secondary School, Army Barracks
- Ussa Local Government Area:
- Government Day Secondary School, Lissam
- Government Day Secondary School, Fikyu
