TORO LOCAL GOVERMENT COUNCIL CONCLUDES ARRANGEMENT FOR THE IMPMEMENTATION OF AGILE
By Alhaji Abdullahi Toro:
Toro local government has concluded arrangement to ensure full implementation of Adolescents Girls Initiative for Learning and empowerment (AGILE) in the area.
The executive Chairman of the local government Pharmacist Ibrahim Abubakar Dembo made the disclosure when he received in the state officials of the project in the council chamber of the local government.
The chairman said to ensure full implementation of the project a high power enrollment drive committee has visited the three districts of the local government to sensitize the critical stadholder’s on enrollment especially on female children.
He expressed optimism that the project implementation have full support of the local government, for community leader’s at all levels to ensure total compliance in all the nooks and crannies of the local government to enhance successful implementation of the project as his doors remain open for any support.
Speaking earlier , the team leader and Bauchi state deputy coordinator AGILE project Bauchi State Alhaji Zuhairu Usman said they are in Toro local government in continuation of their state wide tour to sensitize the critical stadholder’s on their manded in the implementation of the project.
Alhaji Zuhairu Usman said the project is a collaboration between Bauchi state and the World Bank, therefore applauded the state Governor for paying all the state counterpart funds for Bauchi state to benefit in the project, he urged all stadholder’s in the area to play their vital roll’s to ensure successful implementation of the project in The state by deriving the full enrollment of female children in to schools.
According to him the project is targeting twenty one female students who would be funded termly, have access to skills acquisition training, computer training and have special lessons on personal hygiene among others.
He added that the project has design to built forty two new schools to enhance proximity of learning centers to the students as while as renovating one thousand and three another schools in Bauchi state to ensure conducive learning environment to the students.
According to him, to achieve the goal, all hands must be on deck,and therefore challenged all stadholder’s in the area to play their vital roll’s to ensure successful implementation of the project and take ownership of all government properties by protecting them against vandalization.
In his remarks the district head of Toro Alhaji Umar Adamu pledged the community leaders unflinching support towards full implementation of the project.
