He decried the attitude of some government officials, whom he accused offrustrating his efforts to improve the sector.
Mohammed, who was disturbed by the state of education in the state, after exhausting the state’s counterpart funding and that of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), said this when he summoned the Commissioner for Education, local government education secretaries and other government officials to a meeting at Government House, Bauchi.
He said: “We need to focus on education, and my attention was drawn to some areas where our State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) is not doing anything after spending so many years here and then bragging that we have renovated and built over 5,000 classrooms.
“There are still mega schools that have been left untouched andnot enumerated.”
They were not even brought forward by the board for renovation. I think the quality of our work is not something to go home with because I have visited those schools myself.”
The governor said the roofs some of the schools they renovated or built were leaking.
He added: “The quality of supervision from SUBEB is appalling. I have done my best, but certainly, it appears there is no supervision, no control and it is business-as-usual.
“I am highly disappointed with managers at all levels. From my humble self to my office, that of Secretary to the State Government (SSG) that is supervising SUBEB, SUBEB and the Ministry of Education, as well as the local council authorities, are not doing anything. It is just eye service and money-makingand I will not agree. It will not continue.”
He said the World Bank and Federal Government were helping the state, which is regularly giving its counterpart grants.
“Just last year, we spent N3 billion and I cannot see what is done with it. Year before that, we spent N5 billion and a year before that, it was N9 billion and the schools are still left like that. Somebody or some people are there sabotaging us,” he lamented.
