Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has declared that his administration would not have recorded major achievements within two and a half years without President Bola Tinubu’s support.
He said that Kaduna State will be the first subnational to benefit from the $200 million Nigeria-China poultry project, the biggest in sub-Saharan Africa, because of the president’s love for the state.
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‘’By the grace of God, in the next two months, we will be doing the ground breaking for the construction of the biggest poultry project in Sub-Saharan Africa,’’ he said.
According to the governor, the project will ‘’create at least 350 direct jobs and 150,000 indirect jobs and it will support about 10,000 small businesses within Kaduna State.’’
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Governor Uba Sani disclosed all this when he hosted social media influencers for Iftar, the breaking of Ramadan fast on Wednesday night.
Speaking at the event, he said that Kaduna State will be the first to have a Light Rail outside Lagos State, ‘’because of the benevolence of President Bola Tinubu.’’
The Governor who said that the ground breaking of the Light Rail project will take place in May, thanked the social media influencers for their support.
He reiterated that the influencers are professionals in their own right, who chose to promote the activities of Kaduna State Government because of their passion for good governance.
Mr Uba Sani further said that his administration has recorded positive milestones in the two and half years, adding that the influencers have been promoting these achievements.
He said that his administration in partnership with Kuwait Development Fund, has built about 104 schools to address the issue of out-of-school children.
Kaduna State Government has built 65 secondary schools, renovated over 2,300 classrooms,’’ he disclosed, adding that ‘’we are also working toward building an additional 55 secondary schools.’’
‘’We are also recruiting at least 2,000 teachers in our primary schools, starting from next month. And we will continue to do this exercise every year,’’ he promised.
The governor recalled that ‘’when we came in, we had about 580,000 out-of-school children today, but by the grace of God, we have reduced that number to only about 182,000.
He said that Kaduna State is leading in skills development as his administration has established vocational institutions in Soba, Rigachukun and Zangon Kataf.
He recalled that the Minister of Education said that these institutions are more equipped than any Federal University of Technology in Nigeria.
According to him, ‘’every year we are going to be graduating 32,000 artisans that will be certified by the National Board for Technical Education(NBTE), and they can work anywhere in the world.’’
Governor Uba Sani also recalled that his administration reduced fees in Kaduna State-owned tertiary institutions when he assumed office about two and half years ago.
‘’Today, we have increased enrolment by over 200% in all our tertiary institutions in Kaduna State,’’ he pointed out.
The governor also said that Kaduna State is the only subnational in Nigeria ‘’ that has moved our primary healthcare centers, numbering 255, from level 1 to level 2.’’
‘’We have at least an additional 16 secondary healthcare facilities in Kaduna State that are well-equipped, renovated, and rebuilt in Kaduna State.
‘’We are recruiting 1,800 medical personnel, from nurses to doctors every year, in the next five years. We have already started,’’ he assured.
The governor also reeled out his administration’s achievement in the Agricultural sector, reiterating that Kaduna is the first state to perform the ground breaking for the construction of Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone.
‘’We are the second state in Nigeria to partner with Afreximbank toward building Africa Quality Assurance Center(AQAC), so that our farmers will have their produce certified for export globally,’’ he added.
‘’When we came in, in 2023, the budget of agriculture was only 0.5%. But today, the budget of agriculture is over 11%, surpassing the Malabo declaration,’’ he disclosed.
According to Mr Uba Sani, his administration has been supporting farmers, adding that ‘’we are the only states that have given out 900 trucks of fertilizer to smallholder farmers free of charge.’’
