Sanwo-Olu promise to take over full responsibility of two out of school girls in Anthony.

Sanwo-Olu promise to take over full responsibility of two out of school girls in Anthony.

In a statement released by Jubril A. Gawat, the Governor’s media aide on Thursday.

Sanwo-Olu was on his way to an official function, momentarily halted his convoy to attend to a disturbing situation. It was a sight of two underage girls on an errand for a bean cake vendor during school hours.

Time was 11am; the girls were expected to be in school. But, both Amarachi Chinedu, 9, and Suwebat Husseini, 12, were forced to skip school by their parents in order to serve some domestic assistance.

The girls were going to deliver buckets of peeled beans and pepper to a grinder when the Governor sighted them at Anthony Village.

When interrogated by the Governor, Amarachi said, her mother is a teacher, but was not allowed to go to school because her parents could not afford the current session’s tuition fees.

Suwebat’s mother is the bean cake seller for whom the girls were running an errand. Her parents, who are Jigawa State indigenes, relocated to Lagos months back. Suwebat’s four male siblings were all in school at the time she was stopped on the road by the Governor.
But her parents preferred she stayed back home to help with some domestic chores.

Coincidentally, the Governor was on his way to formally launch Social Welfare Integrated Programme (SWIP) Initiative – a partnership between Government agencies and the private sector to standardise welfare administration for the vulnerable children, elders and those suffering mental disorder – when he saw the two girls roaming the street at school hours.

According to Gawat, Sanwo-Olu promised to take up the responsibility for the girls education and upbringing, promising to enrol them in school to continue with their education. The Governor’s decision had been communicated to the girls’ parents.

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