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CES passes girl child education bill

Central Equatoria State Legislative Assembly has today passed the Girl Child Education Bill 2014 in its final reading.

The bill once passed into law, it will promote girl-child education as an affirmative action in the state.

The bill was tabled in front of the Assembly by the Chairperson for Specialized Committee for Services, Hon Ita Easter Pitia.

The Chairperson of Information Committee, Modi Lomindi, told Eye Radio after the session that anybody who violates this bill once it is passed into law, would be punished.

Any teacher who makes a schoolgirl pregnant would be punished severely.

“If a teacher contravenes this law, this teacher is going to be sentenced to 14 year imprisonment and must pay 10,000 Pounds as a fine,” Hon Lomindi warned.

He said all levels of government will make sure that parents and guardians send their children to school.

“If a parent doesn’t allow a girl-child to go to school, then the level of government in that particular area must take up the responsibility of enforcing this law,” he added.

“And therefore whoever stops a girl child from going to school must then face the law.”

Hon Modi Lomindi urged the people living in Central Equatoria State to send girls to school in order to eradicate illiteracy among women.

AWEIL: EDUCATION OFFICIALS UNDERGO TRAINING ON FUNDS MANAGEMENT SKILLS

Education officials from eight payams and County departments in Aweil East North, Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, are being trained to manage school funds effectively.

The three-day workshop is organized by the County education office and the NGO, Save the Children.

County Education Director Dominic Ajith Wieu says the 28 trainees are being shown how to manage schools funds donated by the UK government.

“Our aim is to be able to manage funds in a transparent manner because money has been donated for the schools; there is a school renovation grant and incentives to send girls to school,” said Mr Wieu.

“Girls from primary five to eight will get a form, the chief will sign it and they will get that money in August or September. That is why we want to know, so that when the money comes, it will go to targeted groups without anything missing.”

The facilitator, Andera Anei Achien, says they are training the education officials to use financial forms to make sure that the money is used as planned.

“I told them that there will be accountability: internal auditors will come to check the cash and expenses because sometimes the teacher can write and say ‘you give this amount and when we come you can reimburse that’,” he explained.

“If there is no document, we told them to refrain from doing this because people will be arrested if auditors find out that there is mismanagement of funds.”

The workshop ends today.

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