As part of Governor Charles Soludo’s transformation of the education sector, the 11th Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC) meeting at the Light House, Awka, reached an agreement to rehabilitate more schools to improve the educational standard of the state further.
The Council affirmed that more public schools that had not received enough attention would now receive it, following the government’s clearing of inherited counterpart financing arrears up to 2024, and the expected Federal Government counterpart contribution.
The State’s Commissioner for Information, Law Mefor, stated that the move is to advance the educational sector in Anambra and to enhance the learning standard of students of the schools as well as the quality of their facilities.
The initiative underscores Governor Soludo’s revolution in transforming all sectors of the state’s economy. This move recently spurred the procurement of smart boards in place of the approved interactive boards and the procurement of tablets for teachers in the 22 smart schools across the state.
According to Mefor, the governor awarded the contract for the reconstruction of Boy’s Secondary School, Uga, as a reference model secondary school for the state.
The governor’s free education policy has been extended up to Senior Secondary School Year 3 (SS3), and the state has recruited an additional 3,115 teachers, increasing the number to 8,115.
He has equipped over 60 secondary school laboratories with the required Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) equipment, and increased the operational budgets for primary and secondary schools to ensure they deliver the quality education promised.
Recently, the governor restored electricity to the Uli campus of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, in Ihiala Local Government Area, after 21 years of blackout, and also signed the provision of free internet access for the school.
