Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) Taraba State branch has lauded Governor Agbu Kefas for providing mobile science laboratory kits for science students in the state.
Governor Kefas distributed 126 mobile science laboratories to secondary schools on Tuesday through the state’s Ministry of Science and Technology to bridge the gap in the schools while the government is also constructing infrastructure for the students.
The chairman of the state branch of ASUSS, Comrade Sule Albasu, while briefing journalists on the development, lauded the governor’s free and compulsory education policy. He stated that providing the students with mobile science laboratory kits is timely and would bridge the gap that would have been created while the state government is working to construct permanent structures for laboratories in secondary schools.
“The governor’s free education policy is on track, ASUSS is ready to support him to succeed, we are also urging his administration to prioritize the warfare of teachers, they are the driving force of the policy, let there be motivational incentives to the teachers to have conducive environment to give in their best to the students,” he added.
LEADERSHIP reports that the state’s commissioner for science and technology, Hon Muslim Abdulahi, while presenting the mobile science laboratory kits to benefiting principals, said the 126 laboratory kits were phase one of the programme.
“The governor wants the students to continue with their lessons interrupted while he makes provision for permanent laboratories for all the schools; this is just phase one of the distributions of the kits; all the teachers should guide the kits jealously to last for the test of time while the governor constructs the infrastructure.”
Local government areas that benefited in the first phase of the distribution include Jalingo, Lau, Sadauna, Gasol Wukari and Zing.