Tom Garba
The Adamawa state government has giving out a large parcel of land to the Rochas Foundation to build a school for the less privilege in the state.
Gov. Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa who gave out the land on Sunday in Yola said the government can sacrifice anything for education in the state.
Bindow called on well meaning Nigerians to invest more in education, adding that the sector was vital to social development.
He commended Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo for the provision of a secondary school for the less privilege in the state.
He added that the state was one of the educational disadvantaged, assuring him of support from the state government.
The Governor converted the gulf field into Rochas Fundation site. He said that the public interest surpassed the interest of an individual or group of individuals.
According to the state government would provide an alternative gulf field.
He said the gesture would go a long way in propagating the change the people had yang for.
“We can sacrifice anything for education because it is only peace that is as important as education.
“I commend governor Rochas Okorocha for this kind gesture and I pray that the lord will grant his future political endeavors.
“I am calling on well meaning Nigerians to take a queue from Rochas to invest more in education, especially by supporting the less privileged.
“We will negotiate with the gulfers and provide an alternative place for them, because even the constitution states that public interest surpasses any group interest ’’
Earlier, Okorocha, who is also the chairman of the Rochas foundation said the construction of the school would start by January 2015.
He said that the gesture was to fufil the promised he earlier made that his foundation would build a school for the Internally Displaced persons.
He said that the foundation would incorporate the attorney general, Commissioner for Education and the Speaker of the house as board members.
He said that the board members should ensure that the enlistment was purely based on the less privileged.
He said that 75 per cent of their students were the orphans, adding that the foundation would train the students to the university.
He said that the foundation had partnered with universities of the world.He said that the school would contains a hostel, staff quarters and sports complex among others.
