Permanent secretary, Finance Shehu Aliyu Sinkafi made the promise at the financing safe schools stakeholders’ engagement forum held at the NAF conerence centre in Abuja yesterday. He said the federal government is committed to ensuring a safer teaching and learning environment. In the same vein, the ministry.
This newspaper did a report on failure of the federal to implement provisions of the Safe Schools Declaration Ratification documents three years after Nigeria signed to it. The target is to ensure the safety of Nigerian schools for safe teaching and learning. President Muhammadu Buhari signed for the programme on 31 December 2019, with a promise to implementing the intergovernmental commitment in Nigeria. Three years down the line, the government is yet to give effect to an emergency programme that was meant to increase access and quality of education of over 40 million school children.
Hajia Halima Iliya who is the head of the steering committee and secretariat for the financing safe schools that was created to engage critical stakeholders in the quest to develop and launch a national plan for financing safe schools urged participants to come up with ideas on how to better secure the Nigerian schools.
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