Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has directed the allocation of N20 billion naira in the supplementary budget for further revamp of school infrastructure across the state.
In a statement the state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development Dr. Lawal Olohungbebe says the new investment will strengthen the massive infrastructural upgrade in public schools.
According to it the process has started already ,the designs are being made, and other things will follow as soon as the supplementary budget is approved.
It says this is not a stand alone effort ,but another major intervention of the administration to scale up what the administration has been doing.
It explains that the administration has worked on more than 1,254 classrooms apart from several other special interventions.
It says the administration is proud to have implemented SUBEB-UBEC school intervention projects from 2014 .
The statement notes that the new intervention, which will also include laboratory and sanitation facilities, targets schools in different parts of the state, complementing the ongoing interventions at SUBEB.
“Despite our huge interventions, we acknowledge that there are still gaps, and that is exactly why His Excellency is approving another special intervention to further close the gaps in school infrastructure,” it added.
Rel/Ali Muhammad Rabi’u.
