Jigawa Speaker Reintegrates 8,000 Out-of-School Children Into Formal Education
By Muhammad Aminu, Dutse
MIGA (Jigawa State North West Nigeria) – The Speaker, Jigawa state House of Assembly, Haruna Aliyu Dangyatin on Thursday facilitated the reenrollment of no fewer than 8000 Out of Schools children back to primary and junior secondary schools levels.
The speaker disclosed this while distributing schools materials to some of the new enrollees at Sabuwar Dalam village primary school, Miga local government of the state.
Rt Hon. Dangyatin explained that all the beneficiaries less privileged children, pointing out that some were orphans that never had parental support to be enrolled in to schools in his Constituency.
He said that, the effort followed the agreement signed between the state lawmakers and UNICEF at their meeting in Kaduna on how to address the challenges after presentation of the UNICEF findings on out of schools children’s data on Jigawa state.
“Our commitment of enrolling 8,000 out of schools children in my constituency commenced today with 300 children from this village of Sabuwar Dalam.
“Some of the strategies we apply to achieve our target is massive sensitization campaign on the importance of education, provision of basic learning and teaching materials like school uniforms, bags, exercise books as well as improving the conducive learning environment”, he said.
The speaker maintained that, during the meeting, lawmakers from the state Assembly agreed to enroll 40 percent of the total number of out of schools children in the state and already embarked on the implementation of the strategies.
He then commended governor Malam Umar Namadi for his support to the house and urged the general public particularly parents, traditional and religious leaders to support the move for better future of the state.
While making his remarks at the occasion, the state governor Malam Umar Namadi who was represented by the Secretary to State government Malam Bala Ibrahim commended the effort and urged all stakeholders to contribute their quota.
He said, is inline with present administration’s twelve points agenda with top priority on education.
Malam Bala Ibrahim added that, within one year in office, governor Namadi recruited 6,000 schools, allocation of 32 percent of the total state budget, creation of new ministry of basic education among many other commitments.