We’ll continue to reform education, agric — Buni

Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni says his administration remains resolute in its determination to ensure that reform happens, especially in the education and agricultural sectors.

He spoke at the Government House in Damaturu yesterday while receiving the final reports by the Technical Committee on the Revitalisation of Basic and Secondary Education and the Committee on Agriculture.

He said his administration would immediately constitute implementation task forces, comprising the relevant agencies and stakeholders, to begin to implement, without delay, all the recommendations of the two reports.

“This is because given the fierce urgency of the tasks at hand. We have no time to waste. We need to have schools that equip our children from the earliest ages with the skills they need to succeed in today’s very competitive world. We need to have an education system that could unleash our children’s power of imagination and give them the capacity to be who they want to be in their lives.

“There are so many children in many communities across the state who wake up every day thinking and dreaming to become doctors, and engineers, and nurses, and teachers and architects. There are so many of them who dream big dreams but who always wonder whether it is possible at all to make those dreams a reality.

“This is our chance to turn the tide. After so many attempts in the past, this is our opportunity to give our education sector the highest priority it deserves and provide access to the best possible education for our children.”

He said his government would work to contribute immensely to the food security of the nation and thereby lift hundreds of thousands “of our people out of poverty through agriculture.”

He said state government would further increase its budgetary allocations to education and agriculture “in order to underpin and underwrite the steps we will take to implement the recommendations made in the two reports that have just been submitted.

Buni also assured that the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage would start in the state at the end of this month.

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