By Ma’aji Dandaura

National president of Mada Development Association (MDA), Mr. Silas Gyar, has assured of the association’s resolve to improve academic activities at the Mada Community Secondary School in Andaha.

Mr. Gyar stated this recently during an exclusive interview with Nigerian Newsday.

He said when the present executive came on board; it met a declining rate of enrolment of students in the Mada Community Secondary School, which was disturbing.

He said the MDA then mobilized the parents to enroll their children in the school, which has been made tuition free, saying that this has greatly improved the students’ enrollment.

The MDA president said the West African Examination Council (WAEC) result for 2007 was one of the best in Nasarawa State, hoping that this year’s WAEC result would be better than that of last year.

He said in spite of the meager financial resources MDA has been able to maintain teaching staff, whom he said had been very effective.

Mr. Gyar also stated that when the new MDA executive came on board, it reconstituted the Lunku Mada (Mada Elders) to give it equal representation across all segment of Madaland, because according to him, the former Lunku Mada was dominated by a particular clan of the Mada tribe.

He said the composition of the new Lunku was endorsed by all the stakeholders.

He apologized to the Mada people for the MDA’s inability to hold its national convention last year and hoped that it would hold this year in December.

The MDA national president also said that completion for Miss Mada was expected to feature during the convention.

He said he and the entire people of Mada were in support of the Nasarawa State Government under the leadership of Governor Aliyu Akwe Doma.

According to him, the Mada people were looking up to the present administration to resolve the long standing issue of the Chun Mada and therefore urged the Mada people to be loyal to the present administration.

He called on all Mada people to be calm and be patient as the issue of Chun Mada would surely be resolved by the present administration.

Mr. Gyar also enjoined the Mada people to give the MDA leadership all the necessary cooperation to enable it succeed in the task ahead.

On the plan by the MDA to construct a permanent secretariat, he charged the entire people of Mada to support the MDA both in kind and cash so that a befitting secretariat can be constructed for administrative convenience.