The Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola  has faulted the establishment of the Almajiri special schools in the Northern region, saying the strategy adopted by the central government has no feasible end gains.

Fashola said this at a Breakfast meeting with Stakeholders in the education sector, which held at the City Hall in Lagos, he stated that the essence of training anyone is for him to acquire skill and use it to his benefits and for the society,

He noted that there is no competitive advantage for graduate of Almajiri schools in the present scheme of things.

According to him, “If you train people to acquire certain skills, you must develop avenue where the skills will be useful, that will be the end gain. We have thought this through and as graduates of our technical and vocational colleges, they will become our major contractors.

“And so, it worries me, what is the end gain of products of the Almajiri schools? Will you put your child there?  Will company looking through its job appraisal consider such graduates from Almajiri schools? What chance will the product of the Almajiri school have working for multinational company. Are we giving the children a fighting and survival chance when we segregate them into Almajiri schools; think about it.

“Are we giving a fighting and survival chance to those children when we segregate them.

“In some difficult challenges, yes, they use to have great schools. So for me, the key really to address the challenges in education isn’t a quick fix. It is an unending journey. And that was why politicians don’t like it because it doesn’t yield quick result,” he added.

 “We have issued maintenance contract to all our schools. We have issued about 600 contracts of annual maintenance of our schools and they ranged between N2 million to N4 million per annum. Our graduate are in technical and vocational colleges will be the substantial beneficiaries of the contracts. We now want to ensure that every school in Lagos has regular and uninterrupted power supply”. He said.