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SOMALIA:100 schools to establish in Mogadishu

  1. Posted on Thursday 9 February 2012 - 09:27
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    The residents of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city, have a reason to smile after the country’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) has given a green light to establish one hundred schools across the capital.
    TFG’s president Sheikh Sharif Shiekh Ahmed emphasized on the point that his administration is briskly planning to see one 100 schools to cater for both child and adult education in Mogadishu in near future.
    “Education is a paramount weapon to fight any vice in any human society”, said president Sharif while speaking to journalists on Wednesday in Mogadishu.
    He said one of the key reasons why today government strongly stands against the city’s squatters in its buildings is to refurbish the existing learning institutions in the first place for a quick smooth running of the country’s education sector.
    “Mogadishu has 90 schools which need to be revamped so that our children and adult learners get a place to go for their learning”, the Muslim moderate leader said, expressing his special gratitude to Turkish government for playing a remarkable role in Somali education sectors and other public institutions to revive in a moment of hardship.
    “He repeated his call for no more squatting in government buildings. “I advice you [squatters] to voluntarily leave schools and other government centers so that they get repaired for their civil services resume”, he begged.
    The good news is that the squatters, whom some of them might have been living in those government buildings since 1991 when Somali central government collapsed, do not seem so far to show resistance to the authority.
    Hamarweyne shopping mall, Guriga Hoyoyinka (Women’s House) and a polytechnic school are a few good examples which now government holds their doors’ keys from the squatters.

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