Bindow In Tears Over College Condition, Orders Rehabilitation

From Tom Garba, Yola
Adamawa State Governor, Jibrilla Bindow, broke out in tears when he sighted dilapidated condition of Villanovo Government College in Numan and therefore ordered the immediate renovation of the school.
He blamed the past administrations for the state of the school. Villanovo Government College is one of the oldest schools in Adamawa and has produced great men and women in the country.
“I’m shedding tears because I can’t imagine that human beings are living in such a horrible environment, all facilities that are supposed to be functional are virtually not working,” he said.
He said he wept “for the future because the educational sector which is supposed to be the bedrock of our society is the one that is mostly neglected by our leaders.”
Bindow added that this dearth of infrastructures was applicable to schools especially touched by insurgency when they held swayed in some local governments in Adamawa.
According to him Numan was not among the seven local government areas that were taken by the Boko Haram Insurgency and it is expected that an old and popular school like. Villanova should not be in such a deplorable stage.
His words: “By now we should be talking about schools destroyed by insurgency if other schools like Villanova were not neglected by the past administration. That is why I have declared a state of emergency in the sector so as enable us to renovate and revamp the sector so that our teeming youths will get access to quality education.
Bindow, who inspected the schools facilities shortly after the EXCO meeting, which was moved from the state capital and held in the school said , he has decided that all his EXCO meetings from now on will be held in all 21 local government areas of the state so as to bring government to the people of the grassroots.
He said the reasons for moving the EXCO meetings from the state capital to enable him and his cabinet see things for themselves so as to take prompt actions where necessary adding that if they had not gone to Numan to hold the meeting there, he wouldn’t know the horrible stage of the school.
“I am tired of seating in the office waiting for somebody to bring memo which may not described the reality on ground,” he said.
Responding the Principal of the college, Mr Linus Fate, said this was the first time a government held its EXCO meeting outside the state capital. He therefore appreciated the governor for the gesture to his school.