GOVERNOR
Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has said 600,000 of the one million
pupils enrolled for the 2013/2014 academy during the past
administration in the state are out of school.
He stated this in his remark at a dinner organised by the Bakatsiniya Magazine in his honour in Kaduna.
He added that, even the 400,000 that managed to be enrolled are studying under a condition not conducive for learning.
Masari remarked that education has always remained the pride of the people of Katsina State, as many of the past and present leaders of the country had schooled in the state.
“But unfortunately today education in the state has been neglected for too long and the effect is visible. If you do not give children the right education they will seek alternative training for themselves and that is the genesis of the present security challenges bedeviling the nation today,” he lamented.
He further disclosed that agriculture in the past has been the bedrock of the state economy as 70 per cent of the people depend on it.
However, he decried the past policies that make it difficult for farmers to get fertilizers as same was given to shylock dealers who exploited the farmers.
Masari assured the people of the state that his administration is taking inventory of farmers in the state to ascertain their actual number.
He stated this in his remark at a dinner organised by the Bakatsiniya Magazine in his honour in Kaduna.
He added that, even the 400,000 that managed to be enrolled are studying under a condition not conducive for learning.
Masari remarked that education has always remained the pride of the people of Katsina State, as many of the past and present leaders of the country had schooled in the state.
“But unfortunately today education in the state has been neglected for too long and the effect is visible. If you do not give children the right education they will seek alternative training for themselves and that is the genesis of the present security challenges bedeviling the nation today,” he lamented.
He further disclosed that agriculture in the past has been the bedrock of the state economy as 70 per cent of the people depend on it.
However, he decried the past policies that make it difficult for farmers to get fertilizers as same was given to shylock dealers who exploited the farmers.
Masari assured the people of the state that his administration is taking inventory of farmers in the state to ascertain their actual number.
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