Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje is set to make good his threat to punish parents who refuse to send their children to school by forwarding a bill to the House of Assembly for passage.
Ganduje reiterated his administration’s warning to prosecute parents who refuse to enroll their children for school during an interactive session with UNICEF Advocacy Group at the Government House in Kano on Monday.
According to him, parents who send their children to beg for alms on the streets (Amajiris) will be arrested.
The governor said he was confident that the move by the state government to make primary and secondary education free and compulsory would aid the development of the state.
Ganduje said, “With the bill signed into law, parents who refused to enroll their children would be taken to court.
“Children begging on the streets instead of going to school will be arrested. Begging is not Islam. Those children who are begging will be arrested and their parents will be taken to court for allowing their children to be begging instead of attending school.”
He said his administration had helped in training over 30,000 primary and secondary school teachers, making the state to have less than three percent, unqualified teachers.
Ganduje added, “We hope, you, as development partners, when we are being accused by mischievous people, you will come forward to defend us. Anything we do for the development of education, if we receive undue criticism, I urge you to demonstrate and we will give you protection. That is the only way we can change things.”
