Osun State Government Rallies Support for Child Rights Act

      Osun State government is calling on parents, volunteers, non-governmental organisations and security agencies to assist  in ensuring successful implementation of  the Child Rights Law.

      The Director of Press and  Public Relations in the State Ministry of Information and Strategy, Dapo Ajayi, disclosed this today in Ede at a training programme organised by National Orientation Agency for community volunteers.
Ajayi, who said the state domesticated the Child Rights Act and passed it into law, warned that it was now illegal for the rights of children  to be abused.
     He called on residents to ensure that children were stopped from hawking goods on the streets during school hours while  their  use as house help at a tender age should be discouraged.
     Ajayi said  government was  committed to the welfare of children, adding that this informed  the provision of state-of-art school buildings and one meal per day for all children in  public elementary schools.