Adamawa Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs. Geoffrey Neido, says disregard for child rights is unacceptable and punishable in the state in line with Child Protection Law in place.
Neido stated this at commemoration of 2024 World Children’s Day in Yola on Wednesday.
The Commissioner, who was represented by Mr Hassan Mohammed, Director, Child Development, recalled that the 2022 child protection law was signed in to law in the state.
She said, the law guaranteed 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, Gov. 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 being.”
He added that because of that Gov. Fintiri declared education free, including payment of secondary school examinations fees.
Earlier, in his submission, Stephen Sabo, who spoke on behalf of the children urged government to re-introduced 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/Buses 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 in order to protect maltreatment in schools across the state (NAN)
