This is happening despite efforts the Federal Government, through the UBEC, was doing to tackle the menace and other donor agencies.
Sani who said he doesn’t know about his parents, has been fending for himself unlike other abandoned children without any hope for education. He condemned parents who give birth and send their children into the streets without caring how they are faring. “If you cannot take care of them, they shouldn’t have given birth to them,” he said.
A document obtained from the Federal Ministry of Education showed that in the last seven years, the ministry through UBEC has spent more than N500 billion on infrastructure development at the basic and secondary levels. There had also been cases where some state governments would pay the 50 percent counterpart fund for UBEC to release their fund, and immediately the money hit the dedicated account; it was withdrawn and diverted to other purposes.
She said having high quality and timely data that tracks the child from household, to ECE, to primary to secondary is critical to know who is at risk and what are the reasons.
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