Dodoma. The Minister for Home Affairs, Mr
Mwigulu Nchemba, has warned Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
against campaigning for the rights of children that any student, who is
made pregnant should return to school.
The minister has
wanted such NGOs to immediately stop that campaign, threatening to
deregister them if they continued with the campaign.
The
Cabinet minister has made the statement today when representing the
Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, in a fund-raising drive for the Kisasa
Parish in Dodoma Region.
He said the government would
neither seek advice nor opinions because the recent statement given by
President John Magufuli was the government’s directives.
He
said the government had given the right to every child to be provided
with free education, explaining that any student failing to seize that
opportunity should not find an excuse.
"The president
has directed that education should now be provided freely. No tuition
fees as anyone deciding to do away with that opportunity should neither
find an excuse nor blame the government, " said the minister.