GOV, MASARI SAYS ACQUIRING EDUCATION IS TO BE FREE-SPIRITED  

Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Kastina State, addressing a summit organised to discuss the future of the State titles: The Save Katsina Group Summit, has said education is to free an individual and not to be fixed on paid employment.

Masari while disabusing the minds of youths in the State admonished them to strive towards being more innovative and enterprising by putting their brains to work.

Similarly, he tasked youths in the State to stop casting aspersion on family and community businesses by which they were raised and educated as such businesses are what made the so called developed countries of the world today, great.

“The benefits of the education you have is to free you. An education that does not free the individual from bondage is not an education.

“We don’t go to school because we must be given a paid employment. An educated sugarcane seller will do better than an uneducated sugarcane seller.

“Young men and women, those trades that your fathers and mothers did to educate you, improve on them. Don’t feel that you are above them now. That is part of the problem that is creating unemployment

“Your father is a blacksmith. You go through education through his labour, then you look down on that trade instead of thinking: how do I make it better? How do I improve on this trade?

“History abounds that this small and medium enterprises skills are what made nations great; especially Germany.

Don’t abandon family businesses, don’t abandon community businesses and start looking for white collar jobs. How many white collar jobs do we have?

“The entire workforce in Katsina State, local government, state government and everywhere is not more than a 100,000 and we are consuming in salaries and allowances alone; consuming 5 billion out of those 6 billion at most the state will get.

“How can we progress? Where is the job for everybody? There is opportunity for everybody but there are no jobs for everybody,” Governor Masari said.

Hamza Umar Saulawa, the State Coordinator of the Coalition for Save Katsinsa Group, said the motive of the group which comprises non-governmental organisations in the state, is to assemble all the young