Nigeria is set to commence its criminality policy on Parents who refuses to enrol children of School Age in schools across the country.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu made this known in Abuja while addressing journalists during the 9th edition of the Weekend Ministerial briefing.
The Minister said the government will soon effect the policy which criminalises such acts by parents who sabotages efforts of the Nigerian government at reducing the numbers of out Of School children in the Country.
When asked on full utilisation of Infrastructure already made available by the government to accommodate new pupils into Basic Education, Adamu said: “The policy is already on ground to criminalises parents who refuses to take children of school Age to school.
“So the ministry is to effect this policy so that any parent whose child of school age refuses to take them to school will be jailed.”
Speaking on matching grant and other intervention funds for basic education in Nigeria, the Minister said a total sum of N350b has been expended on the sub sector as against the sum of N360b spent in previous administration.
“In the six years preceding the Buhari Administration, between 2009 and 2014, the Federal Government expended about three hundred and sixty billion naira (N360,000,000) worth of intervention on Basic Education covering textbooks, teacher professional development, construction of classrooms and library resources among others”
The Minister also mentioned that in 2015, matching and non-conditional grants disbursements to 15 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory amounted to N68.4B.
He added that in 2016, grants disbursements to 29 states and the FCT was about N77 billion.
Source: Scannews
