Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State says he is preoccupied with the task of making future elite of children of the poor.
“I came prepared, and I’m focused,” the governor said during an interaction with journalists at the Government House in the state capital, Yola, adding, “I can’t shift from making future elite of children of the poor.”
He said his desire to see to the liberation of the masses informs his investment in education.
“I inherited an administration that was not buying even chalk for class work in our schools,” he said, adding that the situation has since changed for the desired.
He recalled that the government that preceded his own did not access Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund from the federal government because the government of that time did not pay its counterpart contribution that would have enabled it access the fund, but that he had since paid the state’s counterpart contributions up to last year and has subsequently accessed the fund with which huge development projects had been executed in schools across the state.
He disclosed that he would soon authorise the payment of the state’s counterpart fund and consequently access the fund for 2020.
“I am completing road projects left by my predecessor and I’m building new roads,” Fintiri said, citing Bachure link road in Jimeta among roads serving large mass settlements neglected by past governments but which he is currently doing.
“Both within the state capital and in the rest of Adamawa State, we are doing rural and urban roads,” he said.
