IT IS A CRIME NOT TO EDUCATE OUR KIDS – By Omoyele Sowore

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has reported Nigeria has over 20 million children out of school! 20 million! This is both a national disgrace and a state of emergency. But Nigerians are being made to focus on the enemies of kids who kept them out of school in the first place.

Beside these kids our young college students have been locked out their classrooms by a dishonest and irresponsible govt of Nigeria for more than six months now. Our govt will declare a state of emergency in the education sector and use a multi stakeholder/multilevel approach in solving massive problems. In line with global best practices, we will engage families and communities and provide social and economic incentives to bring children back to school, we will create and strengthen safe school initiatives to make every child safe in school.

Where the environment is unsafe for schooling, we will create community school clusters as an emergency measure with deployment of virtual learning where possible. We will create sped schools to bring children back and get them up to their grade level in a four year period.

By 2027, we would have reduced the out of school population by 80 percent through targeted investment in education, social and economic support for families. As I often stated it will be a crime not to educate our kids in Nigeria.

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