The Adamawa State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs Geoffrey Neido, said disregard for child rights is unacceptable and punishable in the state in line with the Child Protection Law in place.
Neido stated this at the commemoration of 2024 World Children’s Day in Yola on Wednesday.
The Commissioner, who was represented by the Director of Child Development, Mr Hassan Mohammed, recalled that the 2022 child protection law was signed into law in the state.
She said the law guaranteed the protection of all the children across the state, “hence the need for people to respect the law’’.
“The vision of the ministry aims to safeguard and address molestation of children and Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the state and to promote their welfare.”
Responding in his capacity as director, Mohammed assured to forward the requests by the children to the commissioner for consideration at the council level.
According to him, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the state “is a children-friendly governor and always responsive to their plights and he considers all memos related to children well well-being.”
He added that because of that Governor Fintiri declared education free, including payment of secondary school examination fees.
Earlier, in his submission, Stephen Sabo, who spoke on behalf of the children urged the government to re-introduce Home Grown Feeding Scheme.
He said the feeding scheme would support children of the poor to attend school with less difficulties.
“We call on you to lead an advocacy for the introduction of School Transport/bus system in cities and towns across the state.
“We also need more teachers in schools, more classrooms, more sporting facilities, more libraries, more books and many more,” he solicited.
Sabo further urged for full implementation of a policy abolishing corporal punishment and bullying in schools to protect against maltreatment in schools across the state (NAN)
Adamawa Govt Condemns Child Rights Violations, Vows Punish To Offenders is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
