EKSG pays N7.3b for SUBEB projects
Victor Akinkuolie Ado-Ekiti
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The Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board(SUBEB), Prof. Femi Akinwumi has disclosed that the government has paid a sum of N7.3 billion as counterpart funding to Universal Basic Education Commission(UBEC), for execution of projects in public primary and secondary schools in the last two years.
The Chairman spoke in Ado Ekiti ,on Tuesday , while briefing newsmen on the activities of the body and its strides to uplift basic education in the state .
Akinwumi said the State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi decided to pay the amount, owing to priority placed on basic education and his determination to turn around the education sector.
Akinwumi assured that the state public schools would be remodeled to the point that there would be influx of pupils into them from private schools, which he said had started manifesting across the state.
He said: “I am a product of public school, including other accomplished academics and professionals across Ekiti . So we have to do our best to reposition public schools in Ekiti.
“Governor Fayemi has the interest of basic education at heart. He has been doing a lot to promote that cadre of education by building structures, provide instructional materials and offer trainings to teachers .
“If the State had been able to pay a sum of N 7.3 billion counterpart funding within two years, then you would know how committed we are to education.
“For four years in Ekiti, which was between 2014 and 2018, no construction, no training at that level. But the present administration has been able to change that.
“By 2021, you will see model colleges springing up in Ekiti. We have got four model schools in 2020 named after prominent Ekiti indigenes; Prof. Banji Akinyoye , Senator Ayo Fasanmi , Chief Deji Fasuan and Prof David Oke . All the schools are fully occupied by pupils .
“We are trying to depopulate the private schools, because people are beginning to move in droves to the public primary and secondary schools, having seen the rising quality of education in Ekiti public schools”.