PRESIDENT John Magufuli in a souvenir photo
with some students, lecturers, staff and stakeholders of Sokoine
University of Agriculture (SUA) shortly after addressing a meeting at
the campus in Morogoro Region, yesterday. Fifth left is the Minister of
Education, Science and Technology, Prof Joyce Ndalichako and fourth left
is Regional Commissioner Dr Kebwe Stephen Kebwe.(Photo by State House)
PRESIDENT John Magufuli has directed the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to disburse 2b/- that was initially allocated for various development projects at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) to construction of students’ dormitories at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA).
The president was unhappy with the
hardship students were going through by walking longer distances from
various places in the streets of Morogoro municipality to SUA’s main
campus to attend classes.
Dr Magufuli issued the directive on his
last leg of working tour of Morogoro region, where he commended SUA for
its contribution to the country’s development through various researches
and providing the best quality of education that has so far helped to
improve agriculture, livestock and fisheries development.
He was speaking while addressing the
university’s community after his tour of the university’s main campus,
where he equally insisted that by recognizing the role played by the
university, his government will continue improving infrastructure and
offering all required teaching facilities that will help the country to
realise its ambitious dream of industrialisation.
He directed the university’s Vice
Chancellor (VC) Professor Raphael Chibunda to continue making necessary
improvements on the university’s administration that will make the
university to continue shining on the quality of education.
The Head of State further showered
praises on the university’s creativity in research where they managed to
use a rat to identify Tuberculosis disease, identifying grenades as
well as putting up 300 hectors of farms that can produce fruits within
five months.
According to the president his
government was committed to increasing students’ loans, provision of
free education which has so far doubled school enrollment as well as
disbursing money for various development projects in schools and higher
learning institutions.
He asked students to concentrate with
their studies and shun engaging themselves in politics, warning that his
government will not hesitate to take appropriate legal actions to all
wrong doers who will engage themselves in acts of disrupting peace.
Earlier on, the minister of Education,
Science and Technology, Professor Joyce Ndalichako said, for the first
time the government had allocated 2b/- for improving infrastructure at
SUA especially laboratories and that in the budget, the government
equally allocated 8bn/- for construction of lecture theatres and
offices, among others.
She said SUA had received more funds
than any other university in the country. The University’s VC said, his
university which has a total of 9,384 will continue carrying out various
researches to help in improving agriculture, livestock and fishing in
order to realise the industrialisation drive.
President Magufuli later yesterday
returned in Dar es Salaam after his marathon working tour of Dodoma,
Iringa and Morogoro regions respectively.
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