El-rufai Declares Free Education In Kaduna

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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has declared 13.7 billion naira yearly free education policy for all primary and secondary schools students in the state.
Mallam Nasir El-rufai
This was made known in the state after a 3-day retreat for Commissioners and Special Advisers in the state at the Fifth Chukker Polo Ground, along Kaduna-Saminaka Express Way.
Dailypost reports that the governor said that the new plan is to offset the financial load of tuition fees, school uniforms, feeding and more from the parents in the state. He further warned that no principal must collect a dime from the student as anyone found faulting would be dealt with. He also stated that the 3.7 billion naira allegedly spent on school fees by the immediate past PDP government in the state was untrue.
El-rufai went further to reveal that in order to ease the process of learning for the children in the state,  about  N9b would be spent for standardized three sets of school uniforms for 1.1 million pupils in primary schools and other materials. Also, about 3.7 billion naira would be spent on fees and feeding for over 3,780 junior secondary schools students across the state.
The governor said he will engage the works of about 5,000 local tailors to produce the same type of uniform for all students in the state. This, in turn, will create job opportunities for local entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, Governor El Rufai recently According to Samuel Aruwan, the special assistant for media and publicity who disclosed this in a statement, the governor cancelled the charges during the state executive meeting.
Just recently, the Kaduna state deputy governor, Bala Barnabas Bantex, in the state as a result of the government’s decision to begin remitting its earnings into a Treasury Single Account (TSA).

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