My Father Said School Isn’t Important For Girls – Abuja Teenage Hawker

An Abuja teenage female hawker has expressed her sadness as she narrated her ordeal to some persons while she was encountered hawking on the street at a time that she was supposed to be in school.

According to the girl, her father allegedly refused to enroll her in school because he believes that schools are not meant for girls.

The teenage hawker was reported to have relocated from Zaria in Kaduna state to Abuja last year. And she opened up on how she misses school just because her father has a different opinion about girls attending school.

She stated that her brothers are the only ones enrolled in school and even mentioned that her friends in Zaria attend schools and they are all girls. She tried to school herself by visiting them after school so that they could teach her what they had learnt in school. But that stopped when she arrived in Abuja as she does not have any friend in Abuja yet.

Below is the report which was shared online;

My family just moved to Abuja November last year. My brothers were very happy when we relocated, except me. I really don’t like it here because I miss my friends in Zaria. My brothers are the only ones my father enrolled In school. He said school isn’t important for girls. But my friends in Zaria who are girls are in school. I would always go to their houses once they were back from school, so they could teach me everything they learnt.

They taught me how to recite the alphabet, 36 states and capital and also taught me how to read and write. I do not have any friend here yet who would teach me things. Sometimes when i think of my friends Ada and Bola I become sad.

I really wish to go back to Zaria.