Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on Saturday insisted that parents who failed to send their children to school in September in the state would be jailed.
The governor, who stated this over the weekend warns sternly on parents who do not want to take their children to school, were free to leave the state.
He said, “You can leave Kaduna State if you don’t want to send your child to school next month. No street begging again. All our children must go to school. Any parent who refuses to send his or her child to school will be prosecuted and send to prison.”
This is just as the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Andrew Nok, said the current administration in the state had awarded scholarships to 40 girls to study Medicine in Uganda as a way of encouraging girl-child education.
Also, el-Rufai’ wife, Hadiza, said the percentage of out-of-school girls was too high and the government had decided to solve the problem.
