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As part of efforts to ensure that all school-aged children benefit from the Fayemi led administration’s free and compulsory education up to Junior Secondary School class three, the Ekiti State Government has commenced arrest of children found running errands or trading during school hours.
The State Child’s Right Implementation Committee yesterday apprehended nine such school-aged children during school hours at the Okesha and Bisi markets in Ado Ekiti.
The State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Alhaja Maryam Ogunlade explained that the arrested children were released after their parents and guardians signed undertaking that the children would henceforth attend school regularly.