By Nabilah Hassan
Kaduna State Governor Senator Uba Sani has reiterated that the state government remained committed to eliminating challenges faced by girls in accessing education and healthcare.
“The Kaduna state government has domesticated the Child Rights Act as part of a rollout of child protection services in the state to provide children access to legal rights,” Senator Uba Sani said on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child.
He said that the state government was continuously investing in schools and teachers to give children a decent education in line with world best practices, with interventions such as 12 years of free education, from Primary One to the completion of senior secondary school.
The governor, as part of activities to mark his first 100 days in office, launched the construction of 62 new Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) and Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) across the 23 local government areas of Kaduna State.
Similarly, a 400-bed hostel was commissioned by the Governor at Government Girls Secondary School, Kawo, where the old structure was destroyed in a fire incident in 2020, now reconstructed with the provision of additional blocks of classrooms. The completion of the project was a fulfilment of promises made by the governor in line with the SUSTAIN manifesto of his administration, and a demonstration of the importance attached to the excellence of girl-child education in the state.
The Kaduna State government also, in furtherance of its commitments to the development of the Girl-Child, is partnering with Google to train 5,000 women and girls in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and the entrepreneurial application of digital technologies in efforts to promote digital inclusion and leverage technology for economic development.
The state government has embarked on renovating and equipping its primary healthcare system, under which a total of 290 primary health centres across the state have been revamped so far, where children 0-5 years of age can access free quality medical care.
The governor also used the Girl Child Day to recall that the Women and Children Shelter had been commissioned to provide accommodation and other essential services to survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and other abuses, mobile medical trucks had also been commissioned to boost healthcare services and enhance the well-being and survival of the girl-child and other residents of Kaduna State by bringing the screening and diagnosis of ailments to their doorsteps.
While celebrating the resilience of the girl-child, Governor Uba Sani gave the assurances of his commitment to ensuring that girls across the state had access to quality education, digital literacy, and crucial life skills.
