After a review of what he referred to as the reality on ground, Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Monday disclosed that the education sector would receive the largest allocation of the state annual fiscal appropriations throughout his tenure.
Speaking in House Government House Katsina when he granted audience to the Chancellor of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Alhaji Umaru Muttalab, and the management team of the varsity, Governor Masari specifically noted that it was the resolve of his administration to accord priority attention to the education sector in view of its universal importance.
“We are in a mission to restore education’s pride of place for Katsina State and its people,” the governor told the recently appointed UMYU’s Chancellor and the cream of Katsina academia.
He pointed out that education sector had been so blighted in Katsina to the extent that about 80 per cent of teachers in public secondary and primary schools in the state send their children to private schools and won’t mind enrolling them in “miracle centres” to undeserved credits in WAEC and NECO.
He insisted that the choice of a business icon of Alhaji Muttalab’s calibre to lead the state university was a deliberate strategy, saying universities are an industry that even generate revenue into public coffers in other climes.
Masari, therefore, charged the statesman and his team to build a solid structure that would free the university from its overdependence on government and tailor its programmes to the need of the state.
The governor, who decried that fallen standard of education in the state and indeed the nation, revealed that his administration would focus on building a sound basic education as a stepping stone towards having the right calibre of students in tertiary institutions of learning.
Earlier, Alhaji Umaru Muttalab thanked the governor for the opportunity given to him to serve the state and the nation as chancellor of university and promised to contribute his quota to uplift the institution, saying it has great potentials.
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