The federal government has described as unfortunate, the inability of some states of the Federation to access over 130 billion made available by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for developing primary education in their states.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who stated this, on Thursday, at the 2021 and 65th National Council on Education meeting in Jalingo, Taraba State, said, over N130,000,000,000 in UBEC custody is still unutilised as a result of the inability of states to provide their 50 pre cent counterpart funds.
Speaking through the Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Adamu said, the affected states need to reprioritise basic education as it is the bedrock for further and continuing education, too strategic to be ignored.
Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Ben Bem Goong, in a statement in Abuja, said Adamu emphasised the need for co-operation from the states, saying the task of developing education at all levels, securing the children and ensuring basic sanitation in schools require that all hands must be on deck to achieve the desired results.
Also speaking at the occasion in a goodwill message, former deputy governor of plateau state and current minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen called for greater stakeholder cooperation in the efforts to eradicate the out of school children phenomenon, adding that no child should be left behind.
President of the Association of Proprietors of private schools, Evangelist Ajibade Augustine stated that members of the Association are more than ever before, determined to take more children off the streets in their efforts at eradicating the out of school children phenomenon.
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