Bayelsa Education Fund Committee Advocates More Funding

The Publicity and Sensitisation Committee of the Bayelsa Education Development Trust Fund (EDTF) has advocated review of the fund’s enabling laws to expand its scope of interventions.
Chief Fidelis Agbiki, Chairman, Publicity and Sensitisation Committee of the EDTF, who spoke during a visit to the Federated Correspondents Chapel in Yenagoa, observed that the EDTF can only intervene within limited situations with its current enabling laws.
Agbiki said having operated for close to eight years, there was need to review the scope of the fund and make more resources available to enable the EDTF to do more.
According to him, the EDTF was saddled with the responsibility of funding the 13 Model Secondary Schools across Bayelsa.
He disclosed that the intervention of the EDTF has uplifted the status of Bayelsa from an educationally disadvantaged state to a top educational state in the country.
He commended the support of the media in the fund’s advocacy and for publicising the fund’s intervention projects. The fund is engaged in training of teachers, providing potable water to public schools as well as in the provision of research grants to researchers in tertiary institutions.