Out-Of-School-Children: Communal Violence, Child Labour Behind Rising Numbers

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In spite of federal and state laws protecting the rights of children and making their enrolment compulsory in some states, the number of out-of-school

She disclosed that the failure of the government to implement the Child Right Law, which has been passed by the state House of Assembly, is as a “result of red tape and bureaucracy.”

“Many rapists in Kaduna are cooling themselves in prison awaiting trial, but some have been convicted,” he said. He said: “The governor has stated that the basic school system is very dear to his heart because of the children who are the future leaders, and that is why the security of the schools’ environment has been taken care of. In most schools in the capital, cases of cultism and violence have reduced because of perimeter fencing of some metropolitan schools as ordered by the governor.”

Often, they are seen at major dumpsites along the Uyo Village Road, which the state’s Waste Management Agency, chaired by Prince Akpan Ikim, has defied Governor Emmanuel’s Executive Order to relocate. She said she had stayed in the camp for over five years with her grandparents, her biological mother, and nine of her siblings who, she said, were not going to school.“I am speechless, I don’t know what to talk about,” he said, adding that “staying alive to hear the cry of my children when they were being butchered by the herdsmen and not being able to do anything alone is traumatising.

She explained that she feels sad anytime she sees her classmates who are already in SS1 in the school. Although the public schools in Kogi State are standard and affordable, some people who are the poorest of the poor still cannot afford to enroll their children in such government-owned schools. “While in our village in the Batsari area, we attended Western and Islamic schools, but since we came here, we only go to Islamic school from time to time.”

Favour, who claimed he dropped out from school in JSS1 class said he cannot return home because he doesn’t want his father to bully him any longer. The 13-year-old Ridwan of Dada area, Ilorin, Kwara State has not been enrolled in school by his parents. He said he’s serving as an apprentice under his biological father who is a vulcaniser.

In an interview with LEADERSHIP Weekend, some of the girls, Iklima Ahmad from Lawanti village of Akko local government, and Sara Adams, from Kwami local government, decried the practice.

 

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