Jigawa speaker vows to enroll 8,000 out of schools children

From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse

The Speaker of Jigawa State House of Assembly Haruna Aliyu Dangyatin has promised to do all his best with support from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to enroll 8,000 out of schools children in his constituency.
Dangyatin made the promise shortly after launch of enrollment drive campaign, held at Sabuwar Dalam village primary school, area of Miga local government Jigawa state.
He explained that, the effort followed the agreement signed between the state lawmakers and UNICEF at their meeting in Kaduna on how to address the challenges after presentation of the UNICEF findings on out of schoolchildren’s data for Jigawa.
“Our committiment of enrolling 8,000 out of school children in my constituency commenced today with 300 children from this village of Sabuwar Dalam.
“Some of the strategies we apply to achieve our target is massive sensitization campaign on the importance of education, provision of basic learning and teaching materials like school uniforms, bags, exercise books as well as improving the conducive learning environment”, he said.