BY AHMED TUKUR, ABUJA – Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State has tasked the authorities of the National Defense College to embark on a study to unravel the security challenges in the northern parts of the country.
Tambuwal, who threw the challenge during a paper presentation of the study in the state at the college in Abuja, urged the College to embark on studies with specific focus on the nature and scope of conflicts in Sokoto State.
Tambuwal also called on the Federal Government to use the defense study tour in the country to overcome current challenges in the country.
The governor said that study tours of the College are deep and handled by top officers of the Armed Forces and individuals of very rich technical and research capacities that can help the nation overcome many of its current challenges.
He assured the leadership of the College that the report of the study tour will be fully implemented to improve science and technology education in the state.
Tambuwal noted that members of the study team are highly disciplined and seasoned officers, who gave excellent accounts of themselves while in the state otherwise known as the seat of the Caliphate, for the National Study Tour.
Presenting the report of the team titled; “Promoting Science and Technology Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution for National Development,” the team lead, Group Captain MS. Kamara, who is one of the African participants from Sierra Leone appraised the role of science and technology education in Sokoto state
Kamara said the state of science and technology education in Sokoto state already looks good enough for the utilization of the Fourth Industrial Revolution for enhanced national development in the country.
He noted that Sokoto state is the only state in the country that has built 23 Girls’ Science and Technology schools in all the Local Governments of the state, adding that findings by the team indicated that Sokoto is the first state in the country to have domesticated the Child Rights to Universal Basic Education and backed it with a legal framework.
The report further noted that the state is among the few in the country that has created a special ministry of science and technology education to monitor and manage technology training and incubation in the state.
Group Captain Kamara appreciated Governor Tambuwal for the warm reception accorded his team and added that the NDC looks forward to further collaboration with the state government on security issues in the future.
In his remarks, Commandant of the National Defence College, Vice Admiral Mackson Makinde Kadiri expressed joy on the willingness of the state government to utilize the research based findings for development, adding that the future belongs to that class.
Kadiri thanked Tambuwal for his outstanding support to the College and assistance rendered to course participants that visited Sokoto.
