KASTINA GOVT TO OPEN LITERACY CLASSES FOR REPENTANT BANDITS.

The Katsina State Government has announced plans to open literacy classes for repentant bandits to reintegrate them into society. 

The Executive Director of the state’s Agency for Mass Education, Bilkisu Muhammad-Kakai, revealed to newsmen in Katsina on Sunday, that the classes will offer both Islamic and Western education to change their behavior and lifestyle. 

Muhammad-Kakai disclosed that the agency, which will deploy facilitators to run the classes in phases, has already made significant progress in adult education, opening 68 new classes and a Basic Post Literacy Class at Katsina Correction Centre. 

She explained that this initiative aims to assist inmates in obtaining degree certificates, adding that the state government has also made financial provisions to address problems facing adult education classes and women centers.

Muhammad-Kakai appealed to members of the National Assembly from the state to allocate funds for adult education classes in their constituencies to wipe out illiteracy. 

She also commended Governor Dikko Radda for supporting the agency and urged collaboration to open more adult literacy and women centers.

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