Africa Press-Nigeria:
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State says he is preoccupied with the task of making future elite of children of the poor.
“I came prepared, and I’m focused,” the governor said during an interaction with journalists at the Government House in the state capital, Yola, adding, “I can’t shift from making future elite of children of the poor.”
He reiterated that he works in consciousness of the poor who form the chunk of society. “I know where it pinches the masses and that’s where I’m working,” he asserted.
He said his desire to see to the liberation of the masses informs his investment in education.
“I inherited an administration that was not buying even chalk for class work in our schools,” he said, adding that the situation has since changed for the desired.
He recalled that the government that preceded his own did not access Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund from the federal government because the government of that time did not pay its counterpart contribution that would have enabled it access the fund, but that he had since paid the state’s counterpart contributions up to last year and has subsequently accessed the fund with which huge development projects had been executed in schools across the state.
