Who will employ graduates from Almajiri schools? Fashola to Jonathan!

President Goodluck Jonathan flanked by Governor Aliyu Wammako and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III while Governor Saidu Dakingari of Kebbi ZState (l) and others watched during the official ceremony to commission the Model Almajiri school at Gagi, Sokoto State.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, faulted the establishment of the Almajiri special schools by the Federal Government which it started in year 2013, especially in the Northern region, saying the strategy adopted by the central government has no feasible end gains.
Fashola who made the statement at a Breakfast meeting with Stakeholders in the education sector, held at the City Hall in Lagos, said that the essence of training anyone is for him to acquire skill and use it to his benefits and for the society,
According to him,

“If you train people to acquire certain skills, you must develop avenue where the skills will be useful, that will be the end gain. We have thought this through and as graduates of our technical and vocational colleges, they will become our major contractors.
“And so, it worries me, what is the end gain of products of the Almajiri schools? Will you put your child there?  Will company looking through its job appraisal consider such graduates from Almajiri schools? What chance will the product of the Almajiri school have working for multinational company. Are we giving the children a fighting and survival chance when we segregate them into Almajiri schools; think about it.

“Are we giving a fighting and survival chance to those
children when we segregate them.
“In some difficult challenges, yes, they use to have
great schools. So for me, the key really to address the challenges in education isn’t a quick fix. It is an unending journey. And that was why politicians don’t like it because it doesn’t yield quick result,” he added.
“We have issued maintenance contract to all our schools. We have issued about 600 contracts of annual maintenance of our schools and they ranged between N2 million to N4 million per annum. Our graduate are in technical and vocational colleges will be the substantial beneficiaries of the contracts. We now want to ensure that every school in Lagos has regular and uninterrupted power supply.
“Ideally if you build a school and you don’t have
responsibility for electricity, really you should take electricity for granted, but unfortunately, we the people in power, electricity is not something you can take for granted. what have done, we engage a strategic partner and we are installing solar panel in 172 school in the first round after which we will commence the second round.”
But what do you think?
Does Governor Fashola have a point??

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