Vice President Namadi Sambo has said the nation cannot achieve its objective in the education sector unless the plight of the teeming population of Almajirai in the country was addressed.

Sambo spoke when he commissioned the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Almajirai Bilingual (Model Boarding) Primary School in Sabon-Gari Zaria, Kaduna State, weekend.

While commissioning the project, which was initiated when he was governor of the state, Sambo said: “The spectre of young people and vulnerable school-age children, bowl in hand, roaming the streets of our towns and villages, begging for the means of their daily sustenance, does not only place a moral burden on our national psyche, but portends a dangerous problem.”

He, however, condemned the incessant cases of security breach in some parts of the country adding, “I am seizing this singular opportunity to call on all Nigerians to live in peace and harmony in accordance with Islamic teachings. “There cannot be any meaningful development without peace.”

He expressed delight at the commissioning of the first Almajirai Boarding School in Kaduna State, noting that since the inception of this democratic dispensation, the three tiers of government had been giving the education sector priority attention.

He said it explained why the government launched the Universal Basic Educa-tion, UBE, in 1999 to ensure free and compulsory basic education.

According to him, the launching of the boarding school was a testimony of the effective partnership between the Federal and state governments on the provision of education to all, including the disadvantaged children who would also contribute their quota to the development of the country.