Governor of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi, has threatened to jail parents who refuse to send their children or wards to school from primary to junior secondary levels.
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Gov. Kayode Fayemi issued the threat at Emure-Ekiti in Emure Local Government Area, at the commencement of the “Registration of Pupils” into Kindergarten and Primary One class’’ for 2013/2014 academic session.
According to him, any parent who has a child of school
age that is not in school from this day will be arrested and tried under
the Child Rights Law 2011. Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State
“Let me use this opportunity to sound this note of warning that any
child that is of school age, but who is not in school, when he or she is
expected to be there, will be picked up.
“And he will be asked to
show agent of government, way to their family home where we will in
turn pick up the defaulting parents. “My government has invested
so much in the education sector, and it is our wish that such acts of
benevolence will be reciprocated,” Fayemi said. Fayemi, who
recalled that out of over 10 million Nigerian children that were
currently not in school in Nigeria, Ekiti had less than 10 per cent. T
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governor emphasised that since his administration had declared free and
compulsory education at junior school level, no parent had excuse not
to support the policy. He explained that since the future belongs
to the younger ones, nothing must be done to truncate what destiny had
in stock for them.
The governor reiterated that there was no way he could have become the number one citizen of Ekiti if he had not gone to school.
He said further that his administration is determined to achieve zero percentage.
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