RAYMOND OZOJI reports
Nawfia, country home of the Anambra State Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning Hon. Chiamaka Nnake and Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo's Chief Protocol Officer Hon. Chinedu Nwoye Glamour together with 75 other communities lack government-owned public primary schools.
Nnake who made the disclosure in her office at the state secretariat complex Awka, said Nawfia her community in Njikoka Local Government Area of the state doesn't partake in the governor's free education policy because schools in the area are mostly mission schools run by churches.
Nnake confirmed to this journalist that Nawfia community doesn't have a government-owned primary school except for three mission schools owned by Anglicans and Catholics, adding that the free education programme in the state doesn't happen in Nawfia community.
She said that herself and Chinedu Nwoye Glamour have tried to pay some of the fees for children of the poor in the community so they don't lose out completely in the free education largese of the state government.
She however expressed hope that Nawfia maybe amongst the first 30 communities to benefit from the 30 new government-owned public primary schools to be built across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state.
She said after the first 30 communities have benefitted from the new school building project, the second phase of the building project would be the remaining 46 communities because the state government, according to her, is deliberate and intentional about access to qualitative and functional education especially for those in the hinterlands.
Although the Budget Commissioner noted that the primary school building project is funded by Local Government Authorities, she said the Executive arm only ascertained criteria for selections.
She also added that the state government has set aside N11 Billion in the 2026 budget appropriations for building and renovation of schools across the 21 Local Government Areas of the state.
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