BY SIMON EBEGBULEM

Yenagoa – Bayelsa State Government is set to introduce free meals at all boarding schools across the state from September this year.

Governor Seriake Dickson, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, made the disclosure, when the Senate Committee on Education led by its chairman, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, called on him in Yenagoa.

Dickson, who also noted that compulsory boarding will commence during the period in all senior secondary schools in the state, said his administration had commenced the construction of three special schools, designed not only to run academic programmes but offer leadership training.

He said the country had suffered decadence in human capacity development over the years, which necessitated his administration’s radical reforms, adopting the bottom-top approach in the sector to break the vicious cycle of unemployment and violence.