Governor Fayemi’s Govt Set To Apprehend Parents Who Send Their Children Hawking During School Hours

January 27, 2019 Callistus Okafor 0 Comment Ekiti State, Governor Kayode Fayemi

Dr Kayode Fayemi, the Ekiti State Governor, has warned that as from now onwards, security operatives will apprehend parents of pupils found hawking during school periods.

He also that parents must take advantage of the free education policy his government is offering in order to cut down the number of out-of-school children.

Governor Kayode Fayemi, the current Ekiti State Governor, stated all these while presenting the State of the State address to mark his first one hundred days in office before a special sitting of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, at the State Assembly Complex, Ado Ekiti.

While making a statement in Ado Ekiti at an Education Stakeholders’ meeting at the Conference Hall of the Governor’s office in Ado-Ekiti last Friday, Governor Fayemi made it clear that all hands must be on deck to checkmate the declining school enrolment rate in the State so that the State’s slogan- ‘Fountain of Knowledge’ does not become an exaggeration and mere saying.

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Governor Kayode Fayemi, previously after his inauguration in October 2018, declared free education from primary school to senior secondary school in the state and abolished all education levies and the education tax introduced by the immediate past government in Ekiti state.

The Governor lamented at the meeting, which was majorly attended by all stakeholders in the education sector, that a lot of parents were yet to take full advantage of the free and qualitative education policy of the administration, stressing that part of the responsibilities of government is to ensure that children and the youth, who are the future of the country, were properly taken through quality education that will prepare them for them against the future.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Yinka Oyebode, said in a statement that the Governor also said that the government has begun gathering the records of retired teachers, with the aim of laying down a vacancy section in the state.