We Reduced Out-of-school Children From 500,000 to 50,000 – Adamawa Government

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri of Adamawa State has revealed that  his administration through its free school feeding programme has reduced the number out-of-school children to less than 50,000.

Governor Fintiri made this known during, a campaign engagement in Hong, adding that this was achieved in the last three years since he assumed office in 2019.

He said the UNICEF data released in 2019 indicated the state had over 500,000 children of school-going age out of the school system.

Fintiri however said the figure has drastically reduced to less than 50,000 due to the priority the administration had given to education.

He said “when we came in 2019, UNICEF said, Adamawa State has over 500,000 out-of-school children. But in three years, we did our best to re-integrate these out-of-school children into the formal school system and today that population has dropped to less than 50,000.”

Governor Fintiri also promised to re-integrate the remaining 50,000 out-of-school children into the school system before the end of his tenure. The governor, who’s seeking re-election for a second term had promised to use the remaining 6-Month left on his first 4-year term to accomplish that goal.

He said basic education had received a boost under his administration, through its free education policy, where pupils in public schools also receive free meals, as one of the cardinal programmes, under his 11-point agenda in his manifesto.