Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu says the Federal Government will soon effect a policy aimed at prosecuting parents who refused to enrol their children into schools across the country.

Speaking in Abuja on Monday while addressing journalists during the 9th edition of the weekend ministerial briefing, Adamu said, such parents who sabotage the efforts of the government at reducing the number of out of school children would be made to face the wrath of the law.

“Unless the issue of parents who refused their children going to school is made a crime and we start jailing parents, the menace of out of school children will not be resolved. There are many who are still working behind culture and religion.

“So the ministry is to effect this policy so that any parent whose child of school age refuses to take them to school will be jailed,” the Minister said.

On matching grant and other intervention funds for basic education in Nigeria, Adamu said a total of ₦350 billion had been expended on the sector as against ₦360 billion spent by the previous administration.