Kwara State: PDP’s gubernatorial Candidate to prioritize Children-Teachers’ Welfare
Tunde Akanbi, Ilorin.
The gubernatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara state, North-Central Nigeria, Alh. Abdullahi Shuaibu Yaman, has again promised to prioritize the welfare and well-being of every child and teacher in the state, if elected as the next governor.
In a statement issued in Ilorin, the state capital, by his special adviser on Media and Strategy, Abdulwahab Oba, Yaman said his vision is to ensure that every child receives quality education in a conducive environment through quality and well-trained teachers.
“We need more than painting classrooms to develop our education sector.
“My vision is to ensure that we make our schools friendly and platforms for our unity and not avenues for exhibiting our differences as a state of heterogeneous nationalities.
“Our primary and secondary schools’ education curricula need to be brought up to standard with contemporary development. This is in order to give our children the right type of education that makes them self-reliant, employable and confident to face the world.
“While remaining resolute in my commitment to reabsorb the sacked so-called sunset teachers, we would also allow our teachers to be at their very best by providing them with the right environment to teach and by training them continuously and ensuring that they get paid when due,” Yaman explained.
He assured that his administration, if elected, shall initiate a reward system that motivates actors in the education system and re-establish the essential decency of the people through which they can build a more prosperous state.
“There shall be an apprenticeship programme for those who don’t want to go to college by optimizing the scale of operations of the vocational college, which the previous government had created for this purpose,” Yaman added.
He assured the indigenes and residents of Kwara state that no worker legitimately employed shall be disengaged under his administration.
