Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has criticized the previous administration, led by Abdullahi Ganduje, for neglecting the education sector.
Speaking on Saturday while declaring a state of emergency on education in Kano, Governor Yusuf alleged that the Ganduje administration sold some public schools and repurposed others as private shops.
He also accused his predecessor of encroaching on public school lands and converting them for private business use.
Furthermore, Governor Yusuf claimed that when his administration began in 2023, approximately 4.7 million primary school pupils were forced to sit on bare floors across the state.
He said, “Rather than building more classrooms and providing basic furniture in the schools, as well as hiring more teachers, the administration we took over from chose to butcher the land belonging to those schools, in some places demolishing classrooms to create space for shops.
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“Those schools that they could not sell, they closed them down and got them vandalized.
“The encroachment of public school lands and the conversion of these vital institutions into private business premises is an affront to our communal values and a direct assault on our commitment to public education.”
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