Refusal To Educate Children To Become A Crime In Sokoto

Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal has approached the state assembly with a bill to criminalize parents’ refusal to educate their children.

Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal

The bill, if passed by the state legislators will make education compulsory while also boosting school enrolment in the state while also curbing the high percentage of parents who deliberately frustrate government efforts to educate children.

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The state government further promised to build and equip 240 primary and tertiary healthcare centres in the three senatorial zones of the state while revealing that the state government has already made adequate arrangement to cater for the educational needs of its citizens, adding that anyone caught flouting the new regulation will not be spared.

Mr Tambuwal revealed this while addressing religious, traditional and political leaders from 11 local government areas of the state who paid him a sallah visit in Sokoto.

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The governor noted that should the state gets its education priorities right, many ills of the society will be taken care of and urged the traditional leaders to support the new initiative.  Mr. Tambuwal said vocational training centres and employment opportunities will be created to cater for the youth and other vulnerable members of the society.

 

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