A total of N138 billion has so far
been expended by the federal government in the development of basic education
in the past three years, Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu,has said.
Adamu,speaking yesterday,in Abuja,at the launch of the National Personnel Audit
,NPA, of all basic institutions in the country,said the amount covered both the
coordination and development of basic education in Nigeria.
The money which according to him,
was a matching grant, was part of government’s resolve to support states and
council areas carry their constitutional mandate of giving a free, compulsory
and universal basic education. Hear him:”The present administration, from 2015
to date had released the sum of N138 billion naira as matching grant. These
funds are being accessed by States and FCT after paying their counterpart
contributions.” Although the minister noted that the past two audits which were
carried out in 2006 and 2010 respectively only captured public basic
institutions, he nonetheless said private basic institutions in the country
have been included in the ongoing nationwide personnel audit. While
establishing that the audit exercise would provide reliable basic education
data to ease and enhance effective planing by decision makers within and
outside the country, he maintained that the exercise would also ensure that
only qualified teachers were engaged in basic education institutions. “As
enshrined in Sections 9(f) and 9(I) of the UBE Act, 2004, the commission is
mandated to carry out in concert with the states and local governments at
regular intervals, a personnel audit of teaching and non-teaching staff of all
basic education institutions in Nigeria. This is to establish reliable basic
education data for planning.
“The National Personnel Audit will go a long
way in establishing a string foundation for the emergence of a sound Management
Information System (MIS) within the basic education sector. It will also
strengthen the current National Educational Management Information System
(NEMIS), which serves as a key pillar of the nation’s educational planning
architecture,” he added. Also speaking, the Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory, Muhammad Bello, harped on the need for all stakeholders in the
education sector both public and private, to jointly work towards providing an
accurate data that would show all relevant indices needed for effevtive
planning in the sector. On his part,Executive Secretary of Universal Basic
Education Commission ,UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, revealed that unlike previous
audits, the 2018 NPA would make use of the Global Positioning System (GPS) for
proper identification and easy location of schools. He explained that in order
to make this happen, the commission was in partnership with the National Space,
Research and Development Agency ,NASRDA, to ensure efficient use of the GPS for
quick conclusion of the exercise and production of results.
We’ ve spent N138bn on basic education in 3 years, says FG
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