By Stanley Onyekwere
Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Abdullahi Adamu Candido canvases for special educational funds to support the indigent children in the Council.
Candido noted that the falling standard in educational system has affected mostly the indigent children who cannot afford to attend good schools.
He made this call while speaking at a budget retreat organised by the Council for its management team in planning for the year 2022 financial appropriation.
He particularly decried the backwardness in the local education authority schools and the low intelligence quotient of pupils across the Council.
To this end, the AMAC boss called on the Council’s legislatures to make a law for an annual grant dedicated specially to education particularly in the area of research into the root causes of low educational enrolment of pupils and the poor educational background especially among the natives.
According to a statement signed by
Mrs. Patience Olaloye , AMAC’s Head of Information and Public Relations unit, the Chairman had also in a related development charged the Education department of the Council in its submission of cultural evolution proposal for the year 2022 budget to harness the cultural heritage of the people of AMAC which he said is gradually going into extinction due to civilization in order to preserve it.
The AMAC boss added that the rich cultural heritage of the people of the Council who are made up of the Gbagys, Gwandaras, Koros, Bassas, Gades, etc if captured together with their artifacts could create a museum for tourist attractions. And therefore enjoined the department to work towards actualisation of the proposal.
