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Free Compulsory Education Set to Begin In Kaduna State

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: August 6, 2016
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Kaduna State government has concluded plans to begin enforcement of compulsory primary education across the 23 local government areas next month.

The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Andrew Nok who briefed Journalists on the activities of the ministry, said the bill to enforce compulsory primary education in the state has been passed into law and would become effective in September.

He said, government came up with the law in order to ensure that no one is deprived of basic education in the State, “the law provides penalty to parent who refuse to sent their children or ward to school.”

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“Anybody who is caught given or receiving alms to beggars, and parent who sends their children to school would be dealt with by the law,” he said.

He added that the State government would get the Almajiri children intergrated into the modern school system.

The commissioner also disclosed that a total of N2.2 billion has been spent on the payment of 1,200 newly recruited teachers in the State.

The commissioner said the delay in payment was to ensure that all the newly recruited staff passed through proper documentation to check the “ ghost worker syndrome.’’

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Nok also pledged that 15 secondary schools would be reactivated as boarding schools and equipped with standard facilities across the 23 local government areas.

He said hostels, library, clinic, kitchen facilities, perimeter fence and potable water would be provided to give the schools a conducive environment for teaching and learning.

15 schools to be reactivated as boarding institutions included Queen Amina College, Kaduna, Government Girls secondary School, Kawo; Government Technical College, Malali and Barewa Collage, Zaria.

Others included Government College, Kagoro; Girls Science Secondary School , Giwa; Rimi College, Zaria; Girls Science School, Kwoi; Government Girls Secondary School , Soba, Government college, Saminaka and Government College, Kagoro.

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