The Chairman, House Committee on Women Affairs, Bauchi House of Assembly, Mrs. Maryam Begel, on Wednesday said that female students in a few schools in the state were being pulled back to take part in menial jobs to generate capital for their marriage.
She said that an intelligent session she had with 60 young ladies of a particular
secondary school in the state revealed such practice.
She said, "I had an intelligent session with 60 young ladies of a specific tertiary school in Bauchi state and what I accumulated from them was stunning.
"They whined that a few guardians were in the propensity for pulling back their little girls from school when they achieve JSS two or three.
"They said such parents initiate their girls into taking part in menial occupation to produce finances that would be utilized as a part of purchasing things preliminary to their marriage.
"The young ladies were so bothered and were deploring that a considerable measure of their partners have had their instruction either incidentally suspended, or totally ended, on such grounds."
Begel, who once served as a Child Protection Officer with a worldwide non-legislative association, 'Save the Child', lamented that such activity by guardians was antagonistic to the advancement of the Girl-Child at once battle was being increased to empower the education of female kids.
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