He made the statement here when laying a foundation stone for the construction of a two-storey Mwambe school in Mkoani Region, Pemba as part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of Zanzibar Revolution.
He commended the efforts saying that the construction of the schools was an implementation of promises of the 8th phase government led by President Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi.
He wanted citizens in the Mwambe area to honour and protect the Revolution as this is the liberator which enabled access to various services, including education.
He said that before the Revolution, the colonial rulers provided these services in discriminatory manners leaving children of the poor out of various services including education and health care.
He explained that the situation and other issues made the founders of the Revolution decide to make every effort to ensure that they eradicate the regime and restore the honour of the nationalists.
He wanted teachers and the community to cooperate in order to ensure that the school produced competent experts of various fields for the country’s development.
The Speaker said that the government has spent a lot of funds to facilitate construction of the school in order to improve the learning and teaching environment attracting children to love studying.
According to him, completion of the school later this month is going to address crowding of pupils in classrooms while also enrolling new pupils from various parts.
“I have been told that within the 6o years of the Revolution, we have constructed three storey schools including Mwambe and Kiwani, so our major role as residents here is to protect these schools for them to benefit more generations,” he said.
Mwanakhamis Adam Ameir, the Deputy permanent secretary, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Zanzibar said construction of the school was one of the government’s strategies in bringing transformation in the education sector.
“Construction of the storey schools is aimed to address overcrowding of pupils in classes as well as remove studying in shifts, this will greatly help improve comfort in teaching and learning thus improving performance in exams,’ she said.
The deputy PS further said that Mwambe area has three primary schools with a total of 4,658 and 68 classrooms.
Deputy Minister for Education and Vocational Training, Ali Abdull-ghulam Hussein explained that construction of the schools was the real fruits of the Revolution.
“The government is committed to address challenges in the education sector, so far a total of 21 storey schools have been constructed in Unguja and Pemba,” he said.
Mkoani Regional Commissioner, Khatib Juma Mjaja said the Zanzibar Revolution was conducted in order to bring liberation to the citizens whose rights were being deprived by the colonial rulers.
He said that in the past 60 years, children from poor families have been accessing their right to quality education, health services, clean water and other social services.
He said the Mwambe school which its construction commenced in May last year and expected to be completed this month has 29 classrooms, 25 toilets, four officers, computer room and a library where upon completion, it will spend 4.6bn/-.
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