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THE Zamfara State administration has requested support from the United Nations International Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) in developing measures to eradicate physical punishment in schools as part of the state’s Universal Basic Education program.
This was stated in a news statement released by the board’s Public Relations Officer lI, Ibrahim Musa Maizare.
The call was made by the board’s chairman, Abubakar Aliyu, during a meeting with major education stakeholders, including security agencies, in Gusau, the state capital, according to the statement.
Traditional rulers, representatives of state School-Based Management Committees (SBMC), and other stakeholders were among those invited to a stakeholders’ meeting organized by the board in collaboration with UNICEF.
The chairman urged stakeholders to support the government’s initiatives and actions that he saw as dangers to the development of the state’s education sector.
He emphasized that the current administration was making efforts to revitalize the state’s education sector.
Ahmad Hashim Tsanu, a UNICEF consultant who presented a report titled ‘Overview on Violence Against Schools: a Call to Stop Corporal Punishment in Schools,’ stated that all stakeholders, including security agencies, had a greater role to play in abolishing corporal punishments in all public schools.
Source: Nigerian Tribune