N4.5bn contracts, SUBEB warns contractors against poor jobs

The Kebbi State Universal Primary Education Board (SUBEB) has warned various contractors handling N4.5 billion contracts to renovate, rehabilitate Primary Schools across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state to do work according to specifications or face arrest and prosecutions.

Chairman of the Board, Professor Sulaiman Khalid who disclosed this to Tribune Online in an exclusive interview averred that any Contractor found to do a haphazard job without following specifications risk being arrested and prosecuted as well.

He explained that the N4.5 billion released by the State government to renovate and rehabilitate primary Schools across the state was done in convictions that with rehabilitation and provisions of necessary furniture and teaching aids the basic education system in the State will lift up the standards of basic education in the State.

Professor Khalid explained further that the State government as of early this year has appointed some professors from some Universities in the Country to head each of the Local Education Authority ( LEA) in each of the Council Areas with the sole aim of enrolling children massively and bring back out of the School children to School.

“I want to assure the state government that SUBEB under the current leaders wants to leave a legacy behind us. This we are doing by training and retraining of our Teachers, we also want to make sure that Teachers who don’t have Teachers Certificate are encouraged to further their education and become certified Teachers,” He said.

He commended the state government efforts for giving him and his colleagues the opportunity to turn around basic education in the State and give it its desire foundation value.

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