Kano State Govt Assures Prompt Payment Of Boarding Schools Food Stuff Suppliers

.... Reviews Food Price Rate Increase By 82%

The State Commissioner of Education Dr. Ali Haruna Makoda disclosed that the administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf would continue to ensure prompt payment of Contractors that supply food stuff to the 39 boarding schools in the state.

He assured that...." whenever the schools food supply Contractors are verified, government would make sure they receive their payment on due course without any delay ".

Dr. Ali Haruna gave the assurance while addressing Principals of boarding schools and Contractors of food stuff during an interactive meeting, held at the Ministry Conference Hall.

Ali Haruna Makoda noted that with coming of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf as Governor, a lots of achievements had been recorded in terms of schools feeding programme in the state.

Dr. Makoda explained that one of the greatest achievement recorded by the administration in that regard was the total upgrade of the quality and quantity of food supplied to boarding schools.

" Based on the report I have, His Excellency has already given approval for the review of the food price rate from N787.8 to N1,430.88 which represents increase of food price given to student by 82% and that improves the entire system of the feeding programme.

" Even from what I heard from the Principals and Contractors, it shows to me that the Governor has brought about a significant transformation in the schools feeding programme " he acknowledged.

The Commissioner therefore urged the Contractors to work diligently in meeting the contract agreement, assuring that his office will remain committed in ensuring speed processing of all requests sent by the contractors.

The Special Adviser to the Governor on schools feeding programme Alhaji Umar Musa Gama has attributed the successes recorded to the commitment of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf to overhaul the education sector, citing that at two different occasions, the Governor reviewed the price of food stuff which he described as commendable.

Earlier, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry Alhaji Bashir Baffa Muhammad said the meeting was organized to critically review the 2023/2024 schools feeding programme and offer advice on how best to improve the system for the 2024/2025 feeding programme.

He revealed that despite the challenges of acute inflation of food stuff price, Kano State Government had responded positively to the request of Contractors by reviewing the price of food stuff.

Speaking on behalf of the Contractors, Alhaji Uba Magayaki commended the Governor for setting up, what he called a solid foundation aimed at improving the feeding program.

He assured the Commissioner of the Contractors commitment to be supplying the best qualitative food to schools as contained in the contract agreement.

The State Ministry of Education which comprises of Seven Agencies, has 39 boarding schools out of which 30 are boys while nine are for the girls.

Kano Donates N14 million, Food Stuff To Family of Accident Victims Under Education Ministry

Kano State Government has donated N14 million and food stuff to the deceased family and accident victims under the state ministry of education.

Distributing the donation today Wednesday to the family victims at Governor's College, the state commissioner of education Alhaji Umar Doguwa disclosed that the gesture was part of the present administration concern in symphatizing with family of the deceased and those who got injured due to car accident while pursuing their academic carrier.

Umar Doguwa said among the victims were late Abubakar Umar a student of Government Secondary school Bichi who was innocently killed recently while in school and whose case is still under thorough investigation, late Abdulkadir Suleiman a student of Exchange Programme who studied at Adamawa State and died recently due to brief illness, 

The remainig were late Hajara Mustapha Waziri a student of Governor's College who lost her life due to car accident and Hajiya Safiya Ahmed, the Pricipal of Government Girls Secondary School Kabo who also lost her life due to car accident.

Others were those that sustained injury as a result of car accident. namely Nana Ibrahim, Fatima Abdullahi Adamu and Ummulkhairi Nura all from Governor's College.

According to the commissioner, each of the victim was given a cash donation of N2 million, two bags of rice, one bag of Maize, one carton of sphagetti and one carton of Macroni.

He said " the administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf does not only pays attention to the provision of learning materials, construction and renovation of schools among others, but is becoming much interested on the general welfare of both the students and teachers at large.

" I want to assure you that Kano State Government will do everything possible to find out those who have hands in the murder of Abubakar Umar and justice must be done to ensure that the culprits are dealt with according to the law ".

While thanking the Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf for his concern over the condition of the victims and their family, Commissioner Doguwa prayed for Almighty Allah to forgive those who lost their life and a quick recovery for those who sustained injury.

Earlier, the Permanent Secretary of Ministry Hajiya Kubra Imam urged the family of the victims to continue to pray to their lost ones for Allah's mercy.

Speaking on behalf of the family victims, the grandfather of late Abubakar Umar thanked the Governor for his concern and prayed Allah to continue to guide him to succeed.