The Kano State House of Assembly yesterday unanimously approved Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s request to access a loan of N10 billion from Access Bank, to help the government scale up security.
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The money will fund the development of optic cyber and the installation of CCTV in strategic locations of the metropolis and headquarters of Emirates councils.
The approval followed a letter of request to the assembly, read by the Speaker, Hamisu Chidari, during a sitting.
Leader of the House, Labaran Madari, (APC-Warawa) explained that the loan had a single-digit interest rate with a repayment period of 10 years.
He added that the facility would also be used to build control rooms for security information and intelligence gathering.
The House further confirmed the appointment of Malam Ismail Musa as the state’s Auditor-General.
It also directed the immediate stoppage of corner shops and other physical structures on the fence of the Infectious Diseases Hospital, (IDH) on France Road in Fagge Local Government Area (LGA).
It directed its committees on Health, Environment and Land to visit the hospital and report their findings on Tuesday.
“Furthermore, the bill for the Kano State Harmonised Retirement age for Teachers 2022 and that of Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital scaled first reading,” The House said in a statement by its Chief Press Secretary, Uba Abdullahi said.
Meanwhile, Governor Ganduje said the government had spent over N7billion to fulfil its obligation of providing quality, basic education.
He spoke in Kano at the opening of the quarterly meeting of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) with Executive Chairmen of States Basic Education Boards (SUBEB).
“As of 2021, the state government had accessed its matching grant from Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and, as part of its responsibility of ensuring quality teaching and learning in its schools, expended N7 billion in providing a conducive learning environment,” Ganduje said.
He pointed out that tackling the challenges caused by the out-of-school phenomenon inspired the Law on Free and Compulsory Basic and Secondary Education, particularly for girls and vulnerable children with special needs, despite the high number of pupils and students enrolment in the country.
Ganduje was represented by his deputy, Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna.
“The policy of implementing Free and Compulsory Basic Secondary Education came with a huge financial commitment to the state and, in that regard, the government established an Education Trust Fund to complement the financial commitment,” he added.
Minister of Education Mal. Adamu Adamu, represented by the Executive Secretary of UBEC Dr Hammid Bobboyi, emphasised that the Federal Government places a high premium on child education, assuring that it would continue to address all aspects of education.
He stated that the Federal Government came to the aid of state governments through the World Bank-supported Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) to address the out-of-school phenomenon.
UBEC Executive Secretary, represented by Prof. Bala Zakari, explained that the meeting had helped UBEC and SUBEB to remain focused on their primary assignment of providing access to quality basic education for school-age children in the country.
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