In Kwara State, constituency projects are filling the infrastructural gaps in primary and junior secondary school education created by poor funding which was made worse by the inability of the state government to access the Universal Basic Education Commission counterpart fund, a PREMIUM TIMES investigation looking at the execution of projects selected by lawmakers has found.
However, Kwara State last accessed the UBEC grant in December 2013 when it received just over a billion-naira grant. Apublished in February revealed that due to the failure of the immediate past administration of the state led by Abdulfatah Ahmed to remit the state’s contribution into the fund, it has been unable to access a whopping N7.1 billion meant for the upgrade of primary and junior secondary school facilities.
Other schools in the district that were renovated as part of the constituency projects selected by Mr Saraki are Karuma Junior Secondary School in Ilorin East Local Government Area, Agbarigidomo Community Primary School and the Government Day Junior Secondary School, Okerere. When reached on the phone, Rasheedat Yusuf, the principal of Onikeke Community Junior Secondary School in Asa Local Government Area, one of the schools that benefitted from the constituency projects, said the project has aided learning in her school.
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