As children all over the world and in Nigeria celebrate ‘Children’s Day’, stakeholders are asking for the protection of the right of the children irrespective of their backgrounds.
They are appealling to the relevant authorities to enforce or ensure that the children are made to know the laws that safeguard their right.
The advocates are also calling for the enforcement of the child rights acts across the various states in Nigeria.
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Comrade Beatrice Ojukwu, a human right activist was on our daybreak show at IbrandTv to shed light on the issue surrounding the challenges of the Nigerian Child.
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Reacting to questions put before her, she said, “the challenges facing the Nigerian Child are enormous, seeing as they are deprived of a lot of things”.
In her words, the children have so many rights such as
- Right to family life
- Right to identity
- Right to education
She claimed that these children were deprived of a whole lot of their rights without the children themselves knowing.
Discussing the level of advocacy or awareness for the Nigerian child, she said: “Honestly, there is no advocacy”.
Ojukwu alluded to the fact that, “the children have been forgotten and all attention have been placed on women abuse and violence on the women but the children have been forgotten”.
Show Them Their Rights
In order for the rights of these children to be protected, their is need for the children to be introduced to these laws.
Ojukwu emphasised that, “the first thing to be done to help children of these days is to help them know about their rights”.
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What this means is that children’s day is not a day for unnecessary match past that does not affect the child’s life in any way.
It is also not a time for organising parties for the children who are surrounded by things they need to address harmful situations.
Unfortunately, they do not have adequate information to handle these things.
With all the aforementioned, children’s day would be one of the best period to organise training for children on how financial literacy among so many other things they need to know.
