Primary education baseline for Nigerian children–DG BPE

Mr Alex Okoh, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), says the future of the Nigerian child is bleak without a solid foundation at the primary school level.

He said this while commissioning projects undertaken by the bureau at the Local Education Area (LEA) Primary School, Dutse-Alhaji, Abuja on Friday in line with its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Okoh said the bureau commenced intervention at the primary level in the country because of its significance to the educational pursuit of the children.

“We have in this school today, future leaders some of whom would be Directors-General, Governors and a President of this country and we need to give them a congenial environment to excel.”

According to him, the organisation’s decision to intervene in some key sectors of the Nigerian economy is a fall out of its 30th anniversary where the management resolved to identify areas of intervention to bring relief to the citizenry.

He added that the areas set out for the interventions included education, health, environment and people with disabilities.

Part of the bureau’s intervention in the school includes renovation of the Nursery and Primary blocks and construction of a new toilet block made up of four male and four female sections.

Others are provision of desks for the renovated Nursery and Primary classes, provision of school bags, books and provision of school uniforms among others.

Mrs Idowu Adebomi, the Headmistress of the school, commended the bureau for conceiving and implementing the projects, adding that the gesture had greatly enhanced the beauty of the school.

She also said that it had given the pupils a conducive environment to learn.

Adebomi said the BPE had undoubtedly provided the template of how government agencies could touch the lives of pupils and the less privileged in the society and called on other agencies to emulate it.

The Traditional Ruler, Hakimi of Dusten, Alhaji Abubakar Bako, pledged the commitment of the community to providing security for the safety of the facilities.

He appealed to the BPE to renovate the remaining building in the school.

-NAN