Minister for Education Filipe Bole said that parents need to get in touch with the school they send their children to and find out what assistance is available.

Bole said that he is disgusted that some parents are allowing their daughters to solicit themselves for the purpose of meeting school requirements when government is offering free assistance to education.

Bole was responding to an article in a daily that a number of younger girls at the ages of 12 and 13 were soliciting themselves for school requirements.

Bole said that the government is providing free transport, free tuition and free textbooks and they also have a policy in place where no school is allowed to send any children home for non payment of fees.

He said there is a policy that restricts schools from conducting more than one fundraising in a year and schools need to seek permission from the ministry for additional fundraising even for mufti days.
 
Bole has also thanked police for their vigilance and urged parents to focus on their families, especially daughters, for they are the future mothers of this country.

Story By: Tokasa Rainima