KADUNA State Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Adamu-Danfulani, has said that the free education programme of the Governor Nasir El-Rufa’i’s administration has increased pupil’s enrolment by 64 per cent.

Adamu-Danfulani made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria yesterday.

He said that some parents could not send their children to school because of the school fees of N200.

According to him, the policy decision of the El-Rufai administration to cancel the N200 school fees has increased enrolment in schools by about 64 per cent.

“Until I was appointed a commissioner and until the declaration by Gov. El-Rufa’i, I never thought that some pupils could not go to school because some parents could not pay N200. When we visited some primary schools, we met teaming parents that were now registering their children in schools, even as some of these pupils were older than the age of starting school.”