Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - AbiaState Governor, Alex Otti, has criminalised the non-enrolment of children to schools in the state.
He disclosed this at Umuahia Township
Stadium during the 2024 Children’s Day celebration, noting that the policy
would be supported with legislation by the Abia State House of Assembly which
would prescribe a penalty for offenders.
He said: “From now on it is an offence for
any child that is of school age not to be sent to school.
“We are going to back that up with a
legislation and that legislation will prescribe penalties for any parent who
refuses to bring out his child for education."
He also said scholarships would be created
for children whose parents are financially disadvantaged, to ensure that every
child of school age goes to school, promising that no child in the state would
be marginalized or molested.
He further abolished payment of levies for
special books by students of the school for the blind, Afaraukwu, and donated a
bus to them.
He apologized to Abia children for the past
administrations which owed teachers salaries and left school environments to
rot.
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