Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos,
has promised to grant scholarships to two girls found hawking during school
hours.
The governor was on his way to a function when he
momentarily halted his convoy to attend to a disturbing situation.
It was a sight of two underage girls on an errand for a bean
cake vendor during school hours.
The girls, Amarachi Chinedu, 9, and Suwebat Husseini, 12,
were forced to skip school by their parents in order to serve some domestic
assistance.
The girls were going to deliver buckets of peeled beans and
pepper to a grinder when the Governor sighted them at Anthony Village area. It
was a glance that presented a discomforting image for Sanwo-Olu, who revved his
convoy to a stop to find out the reason the girls were not in school.
Amarachi’s story left the Governor to shudder throughout the
encounter. Her mother is a teacher, but the nine-year-old was not allowed to go
to school because her parents could not afford the current session’s tuition
fees. Amarachi would have to miss a school year because of this reason.
Suwebat’s mother is the bean cake seller for whom the girls
were running an errand. Her parents, who are Jigawa State indigenes, relocated
to Lagos months back. Suwebat’s four male siblings were all in school at the
time she was stopped on the road by the Governor. But her parents preferred she
stayed back home to help with some domestic chores.
The decisions taken by girls’ parents, Sanwo-Olu said, could
rob the little ones of their innocence, their future and put them at a
disadvantage among their peers. The Governor stressed that his encounter with
the girls left his heart bleeding.
Salvaging the situation, Sanwo-Olu, at the scene, told the
girls he would personally take up the responsibility for their education and
upbringing, promising to enroll them in school to continue with their
education. The Governor’s decision had been communicated to the girls’ parents.
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