Sen. Eyakenyi's Another Round of Outstanding Legislative Diligence
The Senator representing good people of Akwa Ibom South Senatorial District in the 9th Senate, Distinguished Senator Akon Eyakenyi, PhD today, Wednesday 15th July, 2020 presented a comprehensive report of Senate Committee on Education (Basis & Secondary Schools) on the floor of the senate. The report captioned "The Need To Integrate Almajiri Education Into Modern System of Education In Nigeria" received overwhelming endorsement of Senate.
It could be recalled that the Senate at its sitting on Tuesday 10th March, 2020 deliberated on a motion sponsored by Senator Muhammed Alierio (Kebbi Central) on the need to integrate Almajiri education in Nigeria, hence the motion was referred to its Committee on Education (Basic & Secondary Schools). The committee was also mandated, to come up with ways and means to collaborate the state governments to get the currently over 14millions out of school children, enrolled in the Basic & Secondary Education programme and report back to the Senate.
In her report, Senator Eyakenyi observed that Almajiri system of education was initially established as an organized and comprehensive system of education for learning Islamic principles, values, jurisprudence, theology, and culture; but the failure of the system over the years, resulted to unfortunate subjection of the pupils under it to street begging, crime and violence and therefore poses social, economic and security challenges to the nation.
Accordingly, she noted that, the issue of out of school children represents a major national concern and therefore requires sincere and serious commitment and collaboration amongst federal, state and local governments; Traditional, Religious and Community Leaders; parents and other interested stakeholders.
She pointed out that achievements of remarkable success in curbing this issue depends largely on accurate data of the out of school children, a adequate funding recruitment and training of teachers and provision of sufficient infrastructure. The committee therefore invites the Senate to consider and approve the following recommendations.
i. Senate should urge the national council of states through the president, Commander-In-Chief, to compel all states to prioritize and dedicate a certain percentage of the resources to the cause and funding of OoSC and basic and secondary education; comply promptly with the conditions required to access and utilize the funds; own the process and implementation of the programme to ensure continuity and safety of the infrastructural and facilities deployed to the states.
ii. UBEC should extend the BESDA implementation strategies to other states not included in the focus states in order to generate accurate data of those states.
iii. UBEC should deploy more robust and dynamic ways of monitoring the programme and ensure strict compliance for accessing and utilizing the funds and supervision of the Federal Government's monetary and infrastructural interventions to states.
iv. The FME should intensify its sensitization and advocacy programmes; and engagement of all stakeholders particularly, the traditional and religious scholars on the plight of Almajiri amongst other OoSC, and the need to enroll them into the universal basic education system.
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| Sen. Akon Eyakenyi PhD |
It could be recalled that the Senate at its sitting on Tuesday 10th March, 2020 deliberated on a motion sponsored by Senator Muhammed Alierio (Kebbi Central) on the need to integrate Almajiri education in Nigeria, hence the motion was referred to its Committee on Education (Basic & Secondary Schools). The committee was also mandated, to come up with ways and means to collaborate the state governments to get the currently over 14millions out of school children, enrolled in the Basic & Secondary Education programme and report back to the Senate.
In her report, Senator Eyakenyi observed that Almajiri system of education was initially established as an organized and comprehensive system of education for learning Islamic principles, values, jurisprudence, theology, and culture; but the failure of the system over the years, resulted to unfortunate subjection of the pupils under it to street begging, crime and violence and therefore poses social, economic and security challenges to the nation.
Accordingly, she noted that, the issue of out of school children represents a major national concern and therefore requires sincere and serious commitment and collaboration amongst federal, state and local governments; Traditional, Religious and Community Leaders; parents and other interested stakeholders.
She pointed out that achievements of remarkable success in curbing this issue depends largely on accurate data of the out of school children, a adequate funding recruitment and training of teachers and provision of sufficient infrastructure. The committee therefore invites the Senate to consider and approve the following recommendations.
i. Senate should urge the national council of states through the president, Commander-In-Chief, to compel all states to prioritize and dedicate a certain percentage of the resources to the cause and funding of OoSC and basic and secondary education; comply promptly with the conditions required to access and utilize the funds; own the process and implementation of the programme to ensure continuity and safety of the infrastructural and facilities deployed to the states.
ii. UBEC should extend the BESDA implementation strategies to other states not included in the focus states in order to generate accurate data of those states.
iii. UBEC should deploy more robust and dynamic ways of monitoring the programme and ensure strict compliance for accessing and utilizing the funds and supervision of the Federal Government's monetary and infrastructural interventions to states.
iv. The FME should intensify its sensitization and advocacy programmes; and engagement of all stakeholders particularly, the traditional and religious scholars on the plight of Almajiri amongst other OoSC, and the need to enroll them into the universal basic education system.
© Babson Eduno
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