Lagos — The Kwara State Government has announced plans to embark on total electrification of rural communities in the state by the year 2010.

The State Governor, Dr Bukola Saraki, disclosed this on Monday at a meeting with Local Government Council Chairmen at the Government House in Ilorin.

Saraki, who explained that the completion of Gamno Power sub-station project had improved power supply in the State, disclosed that the number of megawatts coming to the State had increased with majority of the people now enjoying electricity on a regular basis.

The State Government, he said, had already distributed about 187 transformers and assured that more would still be procured for rural communities to improve power supply in the State.

He charged the Council Chairmen to give priority attention to the procurement of transformers in their areas so that by next year, every community in the State would have been connected to the national grid. Speaking on the condition of primary schools in the State, Saraki said the State Government would work on the report and feedback on some of the primary schools to achieve a minimum standard of infrastructural development at the primary school level.

Government, according to him, "must do something to have minimum standard in primary schools".

The meeting, the governor further disclosed, is also to deliberate on the level of financial involvement between the State Government and Local Government Councils for the take-off of academic activities at the State University by October this year.