Kwara State government will soon embark on gas and solar powered projects to complement national electricity source that has recently become a disturbing problem in the country.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed disclosed this yesterday during the monthly media chat 'The Governor Explains' aired live on radio and television networks in the state.

He said though the state ranks very low on the federal allocation ladder, the government is exposing the state to the outside world to have partnership in the programmes that have bearing on meaningful livelihood for the people.

He said the government's focus is to consolidate on his laudable programmes in the areas of health, roads, water provision and education for which he was now shopping for a funding window.

On the recent dispute between the government and owners of missionary schools in the state, the governor said the issue boiled down to a realistic implementation of the agreement the agreement of 2006 before the schools were handed over by the original owners.

According to him, there were three categories of schools; private, grantaided schools and the ones fully established by the government, pointing out that along the line, the grant-aided schools had become a huge burden which government's dwindling resources could not conveniently cope with anymore.

Furthermore, the planned education law would enable owners who want to take over their schools do so in a way that would not jeopardise the general interests of the students as the biggest stakeholder in the education sector.

pleaded that the new policy should not generate dispute between the government and some school proprietors, saying the policy had nothing to do with religion or politics.

He also disclosed that the government was putting in place arrangements to contain erosion which has become a global phenomenon because of global warming that come to stay, adding that for a start, government was sensitising the people on good waste disposal habits.