Kano needs N60bn to end learning on floors in most schools — Commissioner

Kano State Government said on Thursday that it needed about N60 billion to provide infrastructure in schools and end learning on the floor in most schools.

The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Umar Doguwa, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Kano.

The commissioner said: “The state is currently managing 10,000 public schools in which more than 4.5 million pupils and students are still learning on the floor.”

Doguwa, however, linked the problems associated with the decay in the state’s education sector to negligence by the previous successive administrations.

He said that the closure of some schools by the immediate past administration had contributed to the deterioration of the education infrastructure.

The commissioner, however, commended Governor Kabiru Yusuf for declaring a “State of Emergency on Education” and increasing the sector’s budgetary allocation by about 30 per cent.

Doguwa also expressed the readiness of the government to revive the state’s education sector and make Kano “a hub of learning” in the near future.

He assured that plans were underway to implement the State Education Policy to logical conclusion with a view to addressing the problems in the sector.