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<\/p>\nGovernor El-Rufai had during a statewide broadcast in 2017 promised to enrol Abubakar in public primary school when he turns 6 years.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cThe move is part of the ongoing reforms to revamp public schools in the state to make them more competitive.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we make progress, we will require our senior officials to enrol their children in public schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are determined to fix public education and raise their standards so that private education will become only a luxury.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I will by personal example ensure that my son will be six years of age in 2019 will be enrolled in a public school in Kaduna State, by God\u2019s grace,\u201d El-Rufa\u2019i had said.<\/p>\n
In an interview with journalists in kaduna after he enrolled the child, El-Rufa\u2019i explained that it was a commitment that had been fulfilled.
\n\u201cI went to a public school like this. In fact, the school I went to is not as good as this one, but here I am, because of the quality of teaching I got.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made that commitment because I believe that it is only when all political leaders have their children in public schools that we will pay due attention to the quality of public education.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy intention is to ensure that all our public schools offer quality education, and so we are encouraging all our senior public servants to send their children to public schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce the public schools are improved to a point they are nearly as good or even better than private schools, no one will waste his money taking his child to private school,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ummi El-Rufa\u2019i, the mother of the child said: \u201cl am glad that we are able to send a strong message to our leaders and the elites, that we need to start making things work from within our homes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the time we start attending public hospitals and send our children to public schools, the system will get better. This is a very huge step,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On his part, the little child said: \u201cI am sad that I will miss my old school, my friends and my teachers. But I have to help my father keep his promise\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In line with his promise to enrol one of his children in public primary school, Gov. Nasir El-Rufa\u2019i on Monday enrolled his 6-year-old son, Abubakar into primary one in Capital School Malali, Kaduna. Governor El-Rufai had during a statewide broadcast in 2017 promised to enrol Abubakar in public primary school when he turns 6 years. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3,4],"tags":[29,11057,218],"class_list":["post-154577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-elrufai-2","tag-kaduna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}