The Nigerian senate has passed a bill for reading, seeking to extend the federal government’s free and compulsory education programme for the Junior Secondary School 3 and Senior Secondary School 3.
A bill was sponsored by imo West Senatorial district spokes man Rochas Okorocha.
The former Governor said the bill when passed into law would ensure that Nigerian children are able to access qualitative education up to senior secondary school level.
He noted that the Federal Government free education policy at the moment only captured those from primary to junior secondary school levels.
Okorocha described the proposed legislation, tagged: ‘Free Universal Education Act Amendment Bill’, as a people-oriented bill.
He expressed the hope that the bill would be given an accelerated hearing and subsequent assent by the executive.
Futhermore, Senator Rochas Okorocha has now been noted in the same statement as the only governor that pointed out the need for free educational system from 2011-2019.
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