By Daniel Tyokua
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike has expressed his administration’s readiness to collaborate with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on training of teachers.
He stated this when representative of JICA, led by Yuzurio Susumu visited the him on Tuesday in Abuja.
Wike, who acknowledged the contribution of JICA to education and other areas in the country, told the delegation not to limit the training to only mathematics but should be expanded to cover science.
He said during his reign as the minister of state for education, the Agency contributed well to education activities nationwide.
Wike said, ” I’m aware of JICA activities in Nigeria as the former minister of state education, I know the activities in education,their efforts to improving access on quality of education, i commend the Agency for sustaining it up till now and by carrying it to FCT.
“The activities in agriculture particularly deals with nutrition is highly commended and the training you will be having for our mothers for the sake of our children in making sure our children have nutritious foods that will aid their health, so we want to sincerely commend you for that.
“Most of your projects you have completed particularly about water project, we believe we can still sustain our relationship by making sure that we put more efforts to see all the activities lined up are completed within the time frame that is scheduled, we on our part will do all we can to see that we fulfill our own obligations too in matching your own support.
“So we know that jica is not one of those international organizations that come to make promises without fulfilling them, I have no doubt of your capacity I know you will continue to do more for us, so this administration is willing to cooperate with you more, we would like to achieve more for our people.
“So we will continue to partner with you in training our teachers in areas that we believe will require most, so we will also be happy that the training should not only be concentrated just here, and we hope you can continue to train our teachers in science and mathematics”
In his remarks, chief representative of JICA, Mr. Yuzurio Susumu promised to sustain its activities in the country, especially the National’s capital, Abuja.
He said the Agency’s activities in the country started since 1960 when the Federal capital was still in Lagos, and will keep doing more for the people.
Susumu listed areas that will be receiving serious attention to include ; education, water and sanitation, agriculture and nutrition.
