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Monday, 7 September 2015

Sokoto: Education, Sanitation Top Priorities for Tambuwal



The policy thrust of the Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal administration is centred on education, agriculture, health and youth empowerment. Since his inauguration three months ago, Tambuwal had given priority to education with the belief that attaining tremendous progress in such sector would transform the state. Determined to reverse the poor educational status of the state, he had on assumption of office, perfected arrangements to criminalise parents’ refusal to send their children to school. Thus, if a bill presented by the governor before the state House of Assembly is eventually passed into law, parents who refuse to send their children to school to acquire education will be committing a criminal offence.
With the belief that when the state gets its education priorities right, many ills of the society will be taken care of, the governor directed the immediate employment of 500 teachers to address the shortfall in teaching personnel in the public schools. Similarly, the present administration has commenced moves to equip 240 primary  healthcare centres in the three senatorial zones of the state. It was in view of the need to protect the health of the citizenry, that the governor re-introduced the special sanitation exercise to rid the state of the menace of refuse dump sites.
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