Gov Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has urged parents rise up to their responsibility of inculcating good moral value in their children to make them useful to themselves and the society.

El-Rufai, who was represented by the state’s Commissioner for Education, Dr Shehu Makarfi, made the call while speaking at a graduation ceremony of some private schools in Kaduna.

He attributed the increasing rate of societal vices to inability of some parents to take their responsibility of educating and monitoring the activities of their children.

He pointed out that the state government’s transformation agenda in the education sector was to impact standard and qualitative education to the younger generation for the betterment of the society.

“We are also making efforts to build additional primary and secondary schools and increase classrooms of existing ones to provide conducive teaching and learning environment for both the teachers and students.

“Plans are also underway to come up with systematic approach for Islamic and conventional education to be taught in same schools as part of efforts to wipe out the current trend of Almajiri system in our society.

“I, therefore, solicit the support of all stakeholders in the sector to achieve our goals in the sector,” the governor said.