Biodun Esan, Ilorin
Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has directed that N20 billion be allocated in the supplementary budget for further boost schools infrastructure across the state.
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Dr. Lawal Olohungbebe said this in a statement signed by Peter Amogbonjaye, Press Secretary in the Ministry on Monday.
According to the commissioner, the new investment will strengthen the massive infrastructural upgrade in public schools, which the administration has undertaken since 2020, following a retooling of Kwara’s relationship with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).
“His Excellency has instructed that we dedicate another N20 billion to school infrastructural upgrades. The process has started already.
“The designs are being made, and we will get down to this as soon as the supplementary budget is approved.
“This is not a standalone effort. It is only another major intervention of the administration to scale up what we have been doing.
Between 2019 and now, the administration has worked on more than 1,254 classrooms apart from several other special interventions,” the commissioner said.
Olohungbebe said the administration was proud to have implemented SUBEB-UBEC school intervention projects since 2014, noting that it was a feat unique to the AbdulRazaq administration.
He said 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,” he added.
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