Titi & Atiku Abubakar. |
The
wife of the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar, Chief Mrs. Titi Atiku Abubakar, has admonished the new set of
students graduating from the Feed and Read Programme of the American University
of Nigeria (AUN) to show good examples of the values that can be imbibed through
education.
Mrs.
Abubakar was a keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony for the pupils who
previously were itinerant children but were recruited by the AUN as
beneficiaries of the Feed and Read programme which offers the pupils meals
everyday, medical care and also encouraging them to assimilate elementary
lessons in arithmetic and English language.
In
her address, the wife of the former Vice President remarked that all hands must
be on deck to ensure that Nigerian children do not live by the street and
saving them, especially the girl children from the dangers of alms begging and
prostitution.
She
said: ”We don’t want to neglect our children. We don’t want them to become a
miscreant on the street of Nigeria. We want to feed them. We want to cloth
them. We want them too to be people in future. And this is exactly what the
founder (Atiku) is doing. That there is dignity in labor. That our children
should not be found wanting.
"Our
children should not be found wandering on the street of Rome because tomorrow
we don’t know what they are going to become. These ones were picked from the
street, they said, and you know they trained them, for nine months and now they
are free to go into primary school. That is why there is no age limit in
education.
These
ones were being picked from the street; they had spent nine month, and we can
see them - they can read, they can write, they have started speaking English.
And only God knows, the sky is going to be their limit."
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