EL RUFAI DECLARES FREE EDUCATION IN KADUNA.

This is a good news and we pray the policy is going
to be physical and not just on paper as is common
with most Nigerian policies.

Kaduna State Government has declared a 13.7 billion
naira yearly free education policy for primary and
Secondary Schools students in the state.
The State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai made this
announcement at the end of a three-day retreat for
Commissioners and Special Advisers in the state at the
Fifth Chukker Polo Ground, along Kaduna-Saminaka
Express Way.
According to him, the policy had taken away the burden
of tuition fees, school uniforms, feeding at the state
boarding schools and other sundry charges from
parents every year.
The governor strongly warned that any principal who
collects any form of fees from parents would be dealt
with, describing as fraudulent the 3.7 billion naira
allegedly spent on school fees by the immediate past
PDP government in the state.
The governor explained that about 9 billion naira would
be spent for standadized three sets of school uniforms
for 1.1 million pupils in primary schools and other
materials to make learning easy for them, while about
3.7 billion naira would be spent on fees and feeding for
over 3,780 Junior Secondary Schools students across
the state.
He added that the state would be paying about 200
million naira per term as school fees for students, while
government supplement for feeding in boarding schools
would gulp 200 million naira per term as well.
According to the governor, about 5,000 local tailors
would be engaged to produce the single type uniforms
for all the schools in the state, noting that the idea was
to create jobs for local entrepreneurs in Kaduna State.
He assured that Kaduna state would follow the path
and landmarks of progressive leadership as
represented by the All Progressive Congress, APC and
President Muhammadu Buhari, stating that
transparency, accountability, strict adherence to ethics
and values, integrity, openness and high sense of
responsibility would be the watchword of his
administration.