Katsina State Governor, Dr Dikko Radda has said his administration has expended more than N120 billion in the last three years to revamp the educational sector across the state.
Radda, in a statement, stated this while recounting milestones his administration’s Building Your Future aganda had recorded since assuming office on May 29, 2023.
The statement, issued by his spokesperson, Ibrahim Mohammed, said the Radda administration constructed 170 junior secondary schools, and renovated 150 primary schools during period under review.
It said three Model and Smart Secondary Schools were also constructed in the state’s three senatorial zones, and equipped with robotics laboratories, and artificial intelligence facilities.
Quoting Radda, the statement said, they constructed 170 junior secondary schools in communities that previously had none. We rehabilitated 300 schools and renovated 150 primary schools.
According to the statament, they established ICT and Computer-Based Test centres in both rural and urban communities, because a child in the village deserves the same digital access as a child in the city.
The statement also highlighted milestones achieved in the health sector by the Radda- led administration.
Further quoting Radda, it said, “Across the state, we massively rehabilitated and upgraded primary health centres to General Hospital standards — because primary healthcare should not mean inferior care.
At General Amali Hospital, our Dialysis Centre now runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, serving patients who previously had no choice but to travel out of State for treatment.
In the agricultural sector, the governor said they invested N2.5 billion to modernise farming and boost mechanised agriculture.
Radda also said they built a multi-million naira Agriculture Mechanisation Centre that has empowered over 1,000 youths with skills and opportunities, in addition to establishing 34 additional mechanisation centres at the local government level so that no farmer is too far from support.
Moreover, it said the state now generates N3 billion monthly against N400 million it used to generate before the coming of the present administration.
A BudgIT-backed Tracka report ranked Katsina first among 30 states in project delivery, with an 85.84 per cent completion rate.
According to the report, of 114 projects worth N26.79 billion reviewed, 89 were fully completed and 17 are ongoing. Not one was abandoned.
The Governor was qioted as saying the ranking did not come from my office. It came from independent monitors. And I am proud of it — not for myself, but because it means the people of Katsina are getting what they were promised.
