NAN-H-64
Enrollment
By Muhammad Nasir Bashir
Dutse, Feb. 21, 2017 (NAN) Chairman of Jigawa Manpower Development Institute (MDI), Alhaji Idi Bukar, has called on the State House of Assembly to enact a law that would enable the prosecution of parents who refuse to enroll their children in schools.
The chairman made the call in a statement he issued in Dutse on Tuesday, decrying the large number of children in rural areas across the state who had not been enrolled in primary schools .
Bukar described education as the key to success for every individual, adding that no nation could develop without it.
The chairman explained that poverty could some times be as a result of lack of education among the people as such persons were often “degraded and unproductive” in the society.
According to him, an educated society experiences rapid progress and the people live a happy life.
“I wish to observe with dismay that enrollment of children into primary schools in the rural areas of the state is still far below expectation.
“This is because some parents in the villages do not care to carry out their civic responsibility of sending their children to school.
“I therefore wish to call on them to make sure that they enroll their children in schools from primary up to tertiary institutions, and give them all the necessary support and encouragement to acquire education,” he said.
He then called on all stakeholders involved in enrolling children in schools, to redouble their efforts , pointing out that the state was in need of resourceful manpower to fast track its development .
(NAN)
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Edited by Shittu Obassa
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