By Abdullateef Salau
Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Ali Ndume, has said that incidents of school abductions and insurgency will not affect school enrolment in the north.
He stated in a briefing after his bill on the establishment of the Federal College of Education, Gwoza, was passed during Senate plenary on Wednesday.
The passage followed the consideration of a reports of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND.
Ndume said efforts were being intensified to address insecurity, assuring that the National Assembly Committees on Army, Defence, Navy, Air force and the Police would ensure the judicious utilisation of the N895bn supplementary appropriation, the large chunk of which is for military hardware.
He said: “Nigerians are known to be resilient in facing challenges like this. I’m very sure that it’ll come to pass particularly now that the government has taken charge of issues of insecurity.
“Our people know the value of education and they’ll not because of insurgency or banditry abandon it for any reason.”
Chairman, Senate Committee Tertiary Education and TETFUND, Babba Kaita Ahmad, said the establishment of the Federal College of Education, Gwoza, would support the North East in improving educational infrastructural needs while balancing access to education among diverse demographics in the country.
