TRIPOLI – Libya’s education minister Moussa Al-Megarief was arrested for failing to provide free textbooks to students in schools, it has emerged. The minister “was placed in preventative detention pending an investigation into (possible) negligence,” the country’s prosecution service said in a statement. The Libyan government earmarks budget every year to provide free books to each student at the start of the school year in September. Due to not delivery of books timely, students are forced to make full photocopies from just a handful of books per class. The education minister’s arrest comes just four days ahead of presidential elections in the country.

Source: Libya Today December 22, 2021 06:07 UTC