‘FCT Indigenes’ Children from 800 Communities Out of School’
Thousands of original inhabitant children scattered across the over 800 communities that make up of Abuja are out of school, Hipcity Innovation Centre, has said.
According to the Innovation Centre, the appalling situation is not occasioned because of the children’s unwillingness to seek education, but because of the unfavourable and uncomfortable learning environments.
In Abuja, Bassey Bassey, Executive Director of the research, development and advocacy organization, disclosed this at press briefing “On the Rights of the Original Inhabitant of the FCT Child in Accessing Inclusive Quality Education”.
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Bassey observed that the education gap that exists in original inhabitants’ communities needs to be plugged with immediate alacrity.
He said: “We are calling on the government of Nigeria, FCT ministry and its education mandate agencies to swing into immediate action in addressing the infrastructural decay eating deep into the education system in rural indigenous communities”.
HipCity Innovation Centre (HipCity Hub) is a research, development and advocacy organization with the mandate to strengthen community capacity, as well as to create platforms for citizen participation in democratic processes. Since 2018, HipCity Innovation Centre has worked extensively with the original inhabitants of the FCT, communities, groups and the Nigerian government in Abuja to improve the delivery of basic services in rural FCT communities.
