A statement from the Press Secretary of Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, Yakub Aliagan on Monday, said the ministry was not aware of the donation initially.

”The State Government wasn’t aware of the distribution of these instructional materials in the first instance. ”The appropriate thing to do is to send those materials to the Ministry of Education, which has a statutory duty of vetting learning materials for quality control and then approve such for distribution.

”Not doing so was a violation of a basic rule, which is key to strengthening our institutions and keeping standards. ”Besides, it is wrong for anyone to emblazon their images or personal logos on instructional materials made with public resources for distribution in public schools.

”The said materials were some sort of Constituency Projects, which have been approved and funded by the Federal Government of Nigeria,” he read. Aliagan added that Gov Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq had earlier rejected a proposal to emblazoned his personal picture on instructional materials for public schools.