Budget: Education will receive largest allocation through out my tenure - Masari

Katsina State Governor Aminu Bello Masari |

Katsina State governor, Aminu Bello Masari, on Monday bring to light that the education sector would receive the largest share of the state annual fiscal appropriations throughout  his tenure.

The Governor disclosed his administration's intention at the Government House Katsina while attending to the Chancellor of Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Alhaji Umaru Muttalab, and the management team of the varsity. He 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,” He said.

The Governor stressed 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 therefore, charged the statesman and his team to build a solid structure that would free the university from its over-dependence 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.