Kaduna State Ministry of Education has expressed satisfaction for the conduct and large turn out of Primary Six pupils during Common Entrance Examination across the State.
The State Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Usman Makarfi stated this to newsmen shortly after monitoring some centres where the examination was conducted.
Dr Shehu Usman explained that, the impression he had before moving to the schools to see by himself probably the students might not turn out for the exam following long awaited to see the date for the exam but keep postponing it for one reason or the other.
According to him, over two hundred and twenty thousand students have written the exam in different centres in Kaduna State.
He equally expressed optimism for the number of girls pupils that have written the examination which according to him, the females are about fourty five percent while the males fifty five percent.
The Commissioner hoped to see in the future that, fifty percent for girls pupils and the male also fifty percent.
” Ones you have all mothers educated definitely everybody will be educated, I’m quite impressed with the turn out”
Dr Shehu Usman also applauded the arrangements put in place by the school authorities for observing Covid 19 protocols through the use of facemask, washing of hand regularly and checking body temperature.
He noted, in 2021 Kaduna State Government with the support of World Bank project would build ninety new Junior Secondary Schools to ease transition from primary school to junior secondary school.
He said the state government is doing everything humanly possible toward ensuring that, every child in Kaduna State is attending school, emphasising that from primary one to SS3 is free and compulsory education.
AMINU DALHATU