Improved School Enrollment: Kebbi Monarchs Seek Legal Backup To Implement EAC Campaign 

NIGERIA –

Again, traditional rulers in Zuru local government area, Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria are seeking legal back up to enforce a campaign called Educate A Child (EAC) in their franchise area.

The EAC campaign is a strategy designed to check the alarming rate of out-of-school children in Northern Nigeria.

These ear and mouth of ruralists, who also requested for redistribution of teacher in LGA made the call in a report at the end of Emirate Level Consultative Forum Enrollment Drive Campaign held ecently at the Palace of the Emir of Zuru.

The report from that meeting stated that, “the roles of the traditional leaders in education of a child should be given a legal recognition or legislation that will help them and give them more implementing power.

“There is need to do a reposting of teachers on the bases on need drive, some schools have in excess while some are almost having nothing.

“We appeal to government officials to redistribute the teachers across the Emirate and accommodation for teachers should be put in consideration any time government wants to put in a structure.”

In order to make headway, they urged other traditional rulers and parents to ensure children are enrolled back to school just as they called on district heads to ensure enrollment drive campaign is replicated in their districts with the village heads.

The meeting called on the State Government to replicate the EAC/UNICEF approach by integrating additional 504 Quranic Schools, even as the state has assured of establishing 48 normadic schools across the state, employed more teachers and construct additional classrooms.

The report also noted that, the representative of the Emir of Zuru, Wazirin Zuru made a passionate appeal to all the traditional rulers to be committed in their respective districts in ensuring increase in child enrollment.

He pledged the Emirate’s commitment to the task of making sure large number of Out of School Children are enrolled back to schools through this unique approach of EAC intervention.

The meeting which was supported by EAC and UNICEF, was a deliberate strategy to seek consultation with traditional institution to champion the enrolment drive campaign at their respective emirate with the aim of having an increase in school enrollment, down to village level and also to trigger communities stakeholders to participate and be committed in the entire process of child enrollment.