Sector "A" Commander of the Nigerian Contingent of UNMIL, Brig. Gen. KI Abdulkarim has donated a 2.7 KVA generator to the Sinoe County Multilateral High School to power the institution's computer laboratory.

According to a press release issued in Monrovia, Gen. Abdulkarim made the donation on Monday, 22 July 2013 during the school's 9th graduation ceremony held at the J. Dominic Bing City Hall in Greenville.

General Abdulkarim, who also delivered the keynote address during the program, was gowned with Sinoe Traditional Regalia by the Parents Association of the school in appreciation for his enormous contributions to the growth of the institution.

The release said while delivering the Keynote Address, the Commander thanked the school's authorities and the parents for appreciating his little contributions and for choosing him in the midst of very important personalities in Liberia to be the Guest Speaker. "This honor would impel me to serve humanity more than ever", General Abdulkarim said.

He told the students that the purpose for which the Government of Liberia admitted them to the Sinoe Multilateral High School is to provide them vocational education, innovation and technological ability and sufficient academic qualification that gives a better stead for suitable employment at a later stage which according to him, will steer them to path of development and growth, having sufficiently amassed knowledge, which he added, will in turn ensure peace and stability in Liberia.

Gen. Abdulkarim said post-conflict Liberia needs a developmental path of education that will sharpen youths' cognitive reasoning rather than indolence which will ultimately bequeath and broaden their horizon thereby creating ability to view issues with intellectual capacity that will enable them embrace dialogue rather than conflict in any given situation.

The Commander further encouraged the students to see education beyond its conventional boundaries saying, "Be receptive to new ideas through instructions, assimilation and observation. Engage in skill acquisition; shun violence and other negative vices that would negatively impact on Liberia"

Delivering the valedictory address titled 'The Falling Standard of the Liberian Educational System and the Way Forward', the Senior Prefect of the School, Harrisson S. Sarkor, described education as a determinant to the development of any nation.

"In Liberia, education was thought to be the key to civilization and the strength of the society. The extent to which a country educational system is advanced determines the level of growth and development of that country", Prefect Sackor said.

He traced the decline of the country's educational standard to the outbreak of civil war in 1989, which he added has become the source of Liberia's social and infrastructural problems.