Afimag.com
Ministry of Tertiary Education, Kwara State, is working out modalities for free transportation for workers and students of higher institutions in the state.
It comes to the heels after the state governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, approved free bus palliatives for the workers and students of tertiary institutions in the state.
The free transportation, according to the governor would cushion the severe effect of fuel subsidy termination on the residents of the state.
In a meeting with Deans of Students Affairs of all public tertiary institutions in the state, representatives of Students’ Unions across the institutions, and representatives of the Kwara State Chapter of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Hajiya Habibat Saidu, said the Governor AbdulRazaq’s administration will better the lot of student-community and Kwarans at large.
She encouraged the stakeholders at various sectors to complement the government efforts on the palliatives for the students and workers of tertiary institutions in the state.
According to her, Saidu the interactive meeting was meant to embrace suggestions on how best to allocate the buses to strategic routes within the metropolis, in order to achieve the desired result.
She stated that the transportation palliative for staff and students of tertiary institutions is free of charge, pointing out that on no account must extortions be accommodated.
While saying that both staff and students would benefit from the free bus ride, she added that institutions’ identification cards would be means of identification.
