Send your child to school or risk jail – Gombe Govt

The Gombe authorities authorities states that it volition prosecute parents and guardians who neglect to nonstop their children to school.

Babaji Babadidi, Chairman of the Gombe State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), stated this connected Monday astatine the inauguration of the 2025/2026 School Enrolment Campaign successful Amada, Akko Local Government Area of the state.

He said that defaulting parents could look a two-month jailhouse word nether Section 19(2) of the SUBEB Amendment Law 2021.

Babadidi said the measurement was indispensable to guarantee that each kid has entree to prime basal education.

“Every genitor should guarantee that their kid oregon ward attends and completes primary, inferior and elder secondary education.

“Any parent, who contravenes Section 19(2) of the instrumentality commits an offence and is liable, upon conviction, to wage a good oregon service a one-month situation sentence.

“Subsequent convictions besides pull a important good oregon imprisonment for a word of 2 months,” helium said.

Babadidi said that anterior to this enrollment campaign, the authorities authorities adopted a carrot attack by providing escaped education.

“However, if we neglect to conscionable our people of enrolling 400,000 students into superior schools this session, we volition revert to the instrumentality attack by enforcing the law.”

The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Aishatu Maigari, said the authorities has implicit 700,000 out-of-school children.

According to Maigari, the North-East portion accounts for 15 per cent of Nigeria’s 18.2 cardinal out-of-school children.

“We cannot beryllium and fold our arms portion our children stay retired of school. We volition guarantee each kid is enrolled. Every kid volition person a prime acquisition and besides larn a trade, which does not needfully mean moving for the government.

“An educated idiosyncratic tin go an leader of labour done skills and entrepreneurship acquired successful school,”she said.

Maigari said the authorities authorities had made monolithic investments to heighten entree to prime acquisition and urged parents to reciprocate by sending their wards to school.

“We person supported the children with workout books, schoolhouse bags, and different schoolhouse materials,” she said.

The commissioner commended assemblage leaders for mobilising parents to enrol their children successful schools.

Dr. Nuzhat Rafique, Chief of UNICEF’s Field Office successful Bauchi, described the fig of out-of-school children successful Gombe State arsenic “alarming.”

According to Rafique, UNICEF works to uphold children’s rights, particularly entree to education.

“Every kid has the close to beryllium successful school, to person prime education, and turn into a productive national of society.”

She described the enrollment run arsenic a captious infinitesimal and urged parents, children, and stakeholders to enactment the program.

Represented by Gadi Galadima, the emir lauded Governor Inuwa Yahaya for the improved concern successful the acquisition sector.

The Emir of Gona, Alhaji Umar Abdulsalam, pledged his council’s readiness to mobilise information successful the campaign.

The item of the lawsuit featured the symbolic enrollment of school-age children into Primary I and out-of-school children into post-basic education.

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