The Myetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) Rivers state chapter has established a free education school in Rivers state for Christian and Muslim children of poor background to have access to education.
Chairman of the association and founder of the school, Alhaji Yau Musa, who disclosed this in an interview with Blueprint on Thursday, said the school comprises nursery, primary and secondary sections.
He said the aim is not just to flaunt free education but to complement Rivers state government education revolution and to enable Fulani children and other less-privileged Nigerian children have access to western education.
While conducting our correspondent round the school built in 2018, Alhaji Musa said he had passion for poor children to be educated like other privileged ones in the society, pointing out that the free school is part of MACBAN’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative to the state and its immediate host communities.
The school is called New Town School, situated in Alode community New Town Estate in Eleme local government area of Rivers state as its immediate host community alongside other adjoining communities.
The founder stated that he got the support of a foreign missionary organisation headed by Mrs. Phyllis Sortor as director, who has also built 13 similar free schools in different states of the federation under the aegis of Schools for Africa.
Also speaking, the principal of the school, Mr. Chamberlain Nwaigwe, disclosed that the MACBAN resolved to provide the free education for Fulani children and children of the host communities who are not Fulani through Mrs. Sortor in order to build their socio-economic future and also to foster unity between the cattle breeders and their host communities in Rivers State.
He disclosed that so far, within three years of its take-off the school now has 120 children that cut across nursery and primary sections and that more were being registered this year who are both Fulani and Christians, adding that since the commencement of the school, parents have been encouraged to register their children who are not privileged to embrace western education.
