By Adamu Muhd Usman
Time, history, events, circumstances and human nature are some things one shouldn’t joke with.
To be candid I appreciate Jigawa governor, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru’s plan to assist and educate the children of the poor especially in this respect on education (Studying medicine)
It takes a prudent leader, courageous mind, ideological thinking, passionate soul, noble step and a visionary person to make this kind of move but I have a reservation on this plan of sending Jigawa students abroad (China) to study medicine.
I am of the view that studying at home would be much much more better because of saving cost, sustainability, safety, improving the state varsity, fear of obstruction like the covid-19 experience that restricted people from making even a local journey for a long time and culture clash
The money that was used in sponsoring 60 students to study abroad in the first batch not to talk of the present plan to send another set of 60 students can reasonably build medicine department, hostels and other things in the state varsity.
I extol Sule Lamido for establishing Jigawa State University in order to give state indigenes more access to higher education.
Before the establishment of the state University, many eligible candidates of Jigawa origin who sougjt admission into higher institutions in other universities failed to get it due to lack of opportunities, hence the warm welcome with which Jigawa citizens received the establishment of the state university, which was named after him. “Sule Lamido University Kafin-Hausa”
I appeal to governor Badaru to create medicine department in the varsity. Even students from other states can benefit from it. This will create and improve the revenue (income) of the state and even the economic aspect will increase (expand) in the town and the state as a whole.
Our fear of sending Jigawa students abroad is justified, considering what happened in Kano. Also issue of morality is another area one should be careful and conscious about. If it were within the country, and government fails to pay, parents will take over and continue.
Please governor Badaru, do something urgent to prove the assertion or allegation leveled against you that, you don’t have the interest of the varsity at heart which is why for the past five years you didn’t create another course/s or and do something tangible in the school beside completion of few projects (to me that one is good and worth eulogizing) and that all the major works going on at the moment are all TETFUND work.
We appeal to Jigawa governor to look into this issue with sincerity of purpose and focus. We want the varsity to improve, we want Jigawa to move to a greater height and we want people to be carried along, have sense of belonging and have sustainable development.
Adamu writes from Kafin-Hausa, Jigawa state [email protected]