A Member of Parliament in Imotong State legislative assemble urges parents to encourage their daughters to continue with education despite their age.
Angela Ajana Pio notes that the number of girls keeps on dropping when they reach higher level of education because of marriage and their husbands do not mind of sending them back to school.
‘The girls are dropping out of school and the boys are the only once remaining. This is what we don’t want, let girls and boys go together. , I know the statistic of boys who have reached university level but there are no girls’.
The MP blames some parents for not knowing the importance of sending girls to school.
Ajana further urges the parents to value the education of their girls more than anything in a family.