Kwara State Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, on Monday, directed that N20 billion be allocated in the Supplementary budget for further revamp of school infrastructure across the State.
Doubling down on its own record, the new investment will strengthen the massive infrastructural upgrade in public schools, which the Administration has embarked upon since 2020 after retooling Kwara’s relationship with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).
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“His Excellency has instructed that we dedicate another N20bn to school infrastructural upgrades, and 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,” said Lawal Olohungbebe, Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, in a statement.
He said the Administration is proud to have implemented SUBEB-UBEC school intervention projects from 2014 and now, a feat that he said is unique to the Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq-led Administration.
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Olohungbebe added that the new intervention would also include laboratory and sanitation facilities, targeting 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.
