KANO: Gov Ganduje threatens to jail parents who fail to send their kids to school

In a bid to curb the menace of street begging, Kano State’s Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has read the riot act to parents in the state who fail to send their wards to school.

Governor Ganduje who was speaking during an interactive session with UNICEF Youth Advocacy in the state’s Government House, on Monday also posited that contrary to what many people believe, begging is not Islamic.

The governor also vowed to arrest and prosecute parents who fail to send their children to school in the state.

“Children begging on the street instead of going to school will be arrested and their parents arrested and charge to court for prosecution because begging is not our religion. Begging is not Islam.

“Those children who are begging will be arrested and their parents will be taken to court for allowing their children to be begging instead of attending school.”

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He also disclosed that his administration has seen to 30, 000 primary and secondary school teachers get qualified certificates, the governor said: “we are ensuring that they go back to school for their qualified certificate.”

Ganduje also added, “We hope you as development partners when we are being accused by mischievous people; we want you to come forward and defend us. Anything we do for the development of education, if we receive undue criticism, I urge you to demonstrate and we will give you protection. That is the only way we can get a change. Otherwise, all that we are doing will remain theoretical.

“I wish what is happening now happened 20 years ago. It would have been a different story by now. Kano state is the most populous state in the federation.

“We want our population to be a quality population. There are some countries in the world that don’t have a drop of oil, but yet their economy is strong. The main reason is education, even development, and technology.

“So, we being the most populous state in the world, we want our population to be an asset. As China has conquered the world as a result of the population that is how Kano will conquer Nigeria as a result of population,” he added.

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