Lawyer Warns Nigerian Parents to Ensure Their Children Obtain Basic Education or Risk Jail Time
Daily Rendezvous - Judgement Has Been Secured; Basic Education is Now Free and Compulsory in Nigeria, Failure is Punishable by Law- Barr. Odo A legal practitioner, Everistus Odo, has issued a warning to all Nigerian parents that there is a jail time awaiting parents who refuse to take their children to school. Odo said, in 2017, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) obtained a judgment from Federal High court which affirms that by enacting the UBE Act, the National Assembly has made the right to free and compulsory primary and junior secondary education contained in Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution an enforceable or justifiable right in Nigeria. According to Odo, the above judgment affirms that every Nigerian child has the constitutional right to free and quality basic education and the Federal and State governments have constitutional mandates to provide adequate funds to ensure its realisation. Odo said several Nigerian parents are alre...