{"id":60054,"date":"2024-11-21T18:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/endbadgovernance-kano-gov-hands-76-minors-to-parents-in-kano\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T18:04:47","slug":"endbadgovernance-kano-gov-hands-76-minors-to-parents-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/endbadgovernance-kano-gov-hands-76-minors-to-parents-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"EndBadGovernance: Kano gov hands 76 minors to parents in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf has handed over 76 minors discharged and acquitted by a Federal High Court in Abuja to their parents in Kano.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the teenagers had been detained in connection with the #EndBadGovernance protests in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, while handing over the minors on Thursday at Muhammad Buhari Specialist Hospital, Kano, urged them to always be law abiding and shun all acts of unlawful protest in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Alhaji Wada Sagagi, charged the minors to uphold the rule of law and respect constituted authority.<\/p>\n<p>He announced that the government would sponsor the education of all the reformed minors.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, he said those who have completed their NCE education among them would be offered automatic employment during the next recruitment exercise.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the state government has given a premium to education, with 29 per cent allocation in 2024 budget and 30 per cent allocation in the proposed 2025 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf further directed the Ministry of Education to ensure adequate follow-up on the reformed minors.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner for Education, Haruna Doguwa, explained that the Ministry had taken statistics of those who were in secondary schools among them in order to take them back to school.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the parents of the minors, Malam Ahmad Muhammad commended the state government for the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, UNICEF Chief of Kano Field Office, Michael Banda, said that the release and reunification of the 76 children and young people from post-detention and interim care was a great development.<\/p>\n<p>He commended Yusuf for prioritising the rights and welfare of the children, reaffirming UNICEF\u2019s shared commitment to building a child-friendly Kano where every child enjoys his or her rights.<\/p>\n<p>EndBadGovernance: Kano gov hands 76 minors to parents in Kano<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf has handed over 76 minors discharged and acquitted by a Federal High Court in Abuja&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22232,1658,15,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-endbadgovernance","category-kano","category-news","category-yusuf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}