By Tsozungu Kombe.
Education stakeholders in Ganze sub county , Kilifi county have been urged to work as a team in a bid to give the girl child education great attention.
Speaking to Education News in his office at Kang’amboni village recently, Mwahera location senior chief, Mr. Alfred Safari Deri decried the high dropout rate among school girls in Ganze sub county.
He added that the high dropout rate had reached alarming levels and drastic measures should be taken to arrest the prevailing situation.
The Administrator attributed the high dropout rate to early marriages and pregnancies.
“The parents are to blame for failing to take great care of their school daughters”, Mr. Deri noted.
He also asked parents to return all their school daughters who had given birth to school to enhance levels of education in the area.
Mr Deri said that the government had introduced free and compulsory primary education countrywide and warned parents who refuse to take their children to school of dire consequences.
