Send your child to school or risk jail, says El-Rufai

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 at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House,  during the screening of the “He named me Malala,” documentary  organised by his wife, Hadiza, said parents who did 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.

Punch, August 15

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