As part of the radical and revolutionary measures to boost school enrolment and providing quality education to every child as required by local and international laws, it will be a criminal offence for parents in Sokoto state not to educate their children, if the bill before the Sokoto state House of Assembly is passed into law.
Making this known Monday while addressing religious, traditional and political leaders from 11 local government areas of the state who paid him a sallah visit in Sokoto, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal said the policy becomes necessary in view of the high percentage of parents who deliberately frustrate government efforts to educate children.
He said 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.
The governor noted that the founders of Sokoto Caliphate made their marks in areas education and scholarship, as such, there’s no excuse if their successors failed to provide at least basic education to the future generation.
According to him, if the state gets its education priorities right, many ills of the society will be taken care of.
While appealing to his visitors to support the new initiative, Tambuwal said vocational training centres and employment opportunities will be created to cater for the youths and other vulnerable members of the society.
PLEASE BEFORE JAILING PARENTS FOR THEIR FAILURE TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL, AM OF THE OPINION THAT,ORIENTATION AND MASS ENLIGHTENMENT SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THEM,DO NOT PRETEND THAT YOU DONT KNOW YOUR PEOPLE, HOW BACK WARD THEY ARE WITH MODERNITY,AND DONT MAKE THE APC GOVERNMENT JAIL,JAIL GOVERNMENT.THAT IS NOT THE CHANGE NIGERIANS CLAMOURED FOR.THE SAME PEOPLE YOU ARE PLANNING TO JAIL WERE THE SAME PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR YOU.