The Federal Government has said work is ongoing to criminalise parents who refuse to send their children to school, adding that such parents may also be prosecuted.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, stated this in Abuja on Monday during a press conference on the Federal Government’s intervention in the basic education sub-sector.Adamu said the ministry had demanded the criminalisation of the act of not sending children to school as well as the possible prosecution of such parents.
Adamu said, “The ministry is calling not just for the criminalisation of this act, because something is already being done on that, but for putting the law into effect. The Sokoto State Governor, once did something like this. Unless not sending children to school is made a crime, and parents who refuse to send their children to school are prosecuted, we may not see the desired changes.
“In 2016, grants disbursements to 29 states and the Federal Capital Territory was about N77bn and in 2017, it was N95bn to 24 states. Hence, the disbursements over the four-year period totalled N350bn.”
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