Wunmi Semudara
The Government of Zamfara State has requested the intervention and support of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) in transforming the education sector of the state.
The Governor of Zamfara Dauda Lawal made this request during his visit to Sunny Echono, TETFund’s Executive secretary, in Abuja.
In the Governor’s words, Zamfara is currently “not doing too well” in the education sector, hence the need for collaborative efforts to revamp the sector.
“As you are all aware, Zamfara is a small state facing the challenge of insecurity, most importantly in the area of education. If you check all the statistics, you will agree with me that Zamfara is not doing too well and therefore we need to be encouraged,” he said.
“It is a known fact that without education, we will not be able to achieve anything and we will continue to be backward.
“Bearing in mind the financial resources of the state, I have a limitation, and this is the place the help will come from ES, (Executive Secretary) I am here, Zamfara needs help. I know you are doing very well but you can do better.”
In response, the TETFund boss expresses delight at the Governor’s passion for human capital development, stressing that Zamfara is rich in resources and needs to harness the potential of the state for its educational development.
He said “The number of institutions in Zamfara, the number one challenge they face over the years, especially in the last few years is the issue of insecurity. We did make some plans for most of the institutions because this year under our intervention we made provision for security infrastructure.”
“We have harnessed the requests from the institutions we started with one of them but we have about three that we believe we will be able to do something about in the next couple of weeks and we will be able to make allocations in that regard.”
“We will also make other interventions based on the approved guidelines that we already have while those that will not come this year, we will prioritise them for the next disbursement cycle,” Echono said.
