CHILD RIGHTS AGENCY PLEADS FOR A RESPONSIVE SYSTEM

CHILD RIGHTS AGENCY PLEADS FOR A RESPONSIVE SYSTEM

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

THIS CHILD LAUGHS AT SOMETHING OF INTEREST

The organizers of  The Nigerian Child Friendly Awards, the Nigerian Child Safety Report Initiative has called on the general society here in Nigeria and even beyond to be responsive to the needs of our  children and stop molesting them .

Checks by The News Office Desk of Paedia Express Multimedia in Lagos, Nigeria shows that   are at least 2.2 billion estimated number of children in the world at the moment but analysts say that regardless of race, gender,class or health ,all children have the same rights and worth.

The agency noted that the larger society is made up of  the various homes ,the community we live in ,the place we work and worship aside from other situations and all these together  make up the Nigerian society.

The agency states:”the child is the most vulnerable human being in the world,even in the first world nations  and in some parts of the world  children living there are more vulnerable than in others  but in third world nations children are virtually defenseless”

The body assured that in many African nations ,children do not get all the help that they needed to grow  and develop the way that they should  with Nigeria not being an exception in this case hence the rights of  child should not be seen as a privilege but as a collective responsibility towards a greater society .

The agency added that all in the polity need to help the child to develop  in the best way that he can  as they on their own will help to fashion out a blueprint with the press such that it can create a grass root awareness by various means .

The body then told all and sundry that it was staging the Nigerian Child Friendly Awards so as to drive the society towards taking responsibility towards being child friendly.