KATSINA S-POWER: 5,000 APPOINTMENT LETTERS READY FOR SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS

 By Pat PA Okon

                                                     
The Governor of Katsina State, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari has disclosed that letters of appointment will be released on Tuesday to about 5,000 teachers under the newly-introduced S-power programme in the state.

@Katgovmedia reports that Masari was speaking during a rally organised by beneficiaries of social intervention programmes in support of Governor Aminu Masari.                                                     The programme organised under the Office of Special Adviser on Girl Child Education and Development was held at Muhammad Dikko Stadium in Katsina.

Masari further explained that the S-power scheme was introduced to complement the N-power social intervention programme of the federal government to create jobs for the teeming unemployed youths and strengthen the teachers capacity so as to actualise the dream of an Educative State.

The Governor noted that the various intervention programmes had economic and social multiplier-effects of improving the well-being of farmers, cooks, transporters and others in the chain of running the programme.

He therefore charged state governments to emulate the federal government in creating similar social intervention programmes in their respective States so as to reduce restiveness and create employment, as the  programmes have positive multipier-effects.                                                       .                                                        The Governor observed that the school feeding programme had increased the enrollment and retention rate of pupils in primary schools not only in Katsina State but throughout the federation.

The rally was concluded with the  distribution of 2,500 pots, 6,800 coolers and 350,000 plates to the beneficiaries of school feeding programme.                                       Masari explained that the gesture was meant to enhance hygienic provision of the food to the pupils.

He appealed to parents/guardians to ensure that the plates of the pupils are kept clean to prevent the food from contamination.

The Governor announced plans by the present APC administration to introduced S-Power schemes in the health and other critical  sectors in the state.

Earlier, the Focal Person and Special Adviser on Girl Child Education, Hajiya Binta Umar Abba, gave a welcome address where she expressed that the rally was organized at the instance of the beneficiaries of the social intervention programmes in the state.

Katsina Media and Publicity reports that Binta explained that 3477 benefitted from the three components of N- power, conditional cash transfer and Girl Education project- GEP in the state.

She expressed the hope that the beneficiaries would reciprocate the gesture through massive votes to APC in the 2019 General Elections.

Others who spoke during the rally were the Desk Officer for Understanding Social Investment Programme in Kaita, Alhaji Dalhatu Bara’u Batagarawa, Murja and Bilki Sa’idu Malumfashi, the two beneficiaries of school feeding programme as well as a beneficiary of N- power who showered encomium on both President Muhammad Buhari and Governor Masari for the social investment programmes in the state.

Recall that Katsina Media and Publicity had last month announced the screening exercise and subsequent success of the 5000 applicants.