Kaduna
State government in Nigeria said any parents who refused to allow his children between
the ages of 6 and 15 years to obtain free education provided by the state
government will be arrested and prosecuted. GOVERNOR AHMED advised and stated this at the program entitled ADVOCATING FOR GIRL CHILD EDUCATION organized
by NGO YOUTH GROUP AFRICA in Kaduna
state Nigeria.
According
to reporter from Kaduna state who said that MALLAM LASU emphasize stressed that the state government had concluded
arrangement to ensure that every child attends school, he explained that
government was feeding 1.8 million people in public schools to ensure that
children especially girls acquired sound education. According to him he
specified that he does not want any parents to give an excuse in this
administration why his child boy or girl is not in the school with effect from
September 2016 when the school will open; any child aged between 6 and 15 year
found not in the school will have his parents or guardian arrested, prosecuted
and send to prison.
Still
according to MALLAM LASU, the
commissioner of education has already directed that all senior management staff
of ministry of Education has sent direct report to parents to remove their
children from private schools and put them government school to avoid excuses.
Also
speaking the state commissioner for education, science and technology PROFESSOR ANDREW LUCK said government has
increased female enrollment in school through award of scholarship. According to
PROFESSOR ANDREW who said that all their
effort is to encourage female student to enroll and benefit most from these
schemes.
The
founder of the NGO YOUTH GROUP AFRICA MR.
ROTIMI OLAWADE advised parents and traditional rulers to ensure that girls
in their community go to schools, according to him; he said that the essence of
organizing the program is to shed more light on how to organize and ensure that
girls in the community go to school. And this cost the government 10.5 million naira for school children
to achieve this objective. MR. ROTIMI
OLAWADE also said that in Kaduna state there are lot girls in primary
school and some of them later drop out in secondary school.
Also
the wife of Kaduna state governor HAJIA
HADIS RUFAI noted that girls constitute a significant population which
should be supported to acquire quality education. According to her she said
that there are many factors militating against the girl child education in
Nigeria, particularly in the Northern part of the country, and she specified
that this is why programs like this forum is very important because the call is
to focus on these issues and the demand is that we rise up to the challenges of
providing solutions to them.
Some
of the participants on the program emphasized to the government of all level to
put more resources to promote GIRL CHILD
EDUCATION in the country. According to them, they said that when you
educate a girl child, you have completely educated a nation and they also
emphasized on the need for parents to make sure that they educate their girl
child. The program is being attended by Students Parents and Traditional of the
community.
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