Dr. Hamid Bobboyi,the Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Dr. Hamid Bobboyi has expressed dissatisfaction over challenges facing basic school delivery in parts of the country.
He lamented thatbchallenges of insecurity and social economic crisis is now making parents to engage their children for pursuits such as hawking, child labor, begging and farming
He added that due to insecurity, schools which hitherto served as learning centres are being converted to camps for Internally Displaced Persons IDPs.
Bobboyi, represented by the Deputy Executive Service Secretary (Technical) Dr. Bala Zakari raised these concerns when the Senior Executive Course 43, of the National Institute For Policy and Strategic Studies NIPSS 2021 paid a courtesy visit to the agency.
“The sector is faced with some challenges like insecurity in some states which slowed down school construction and sometimes result in destruction of completed projects or abandonment of projects.
“Parents are engaging their children for economic pursuits such as hawking, child labor, begging and farming thus increasing the rate of Out of School Children and contributing to social menace, “the UBEC boss stated.
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