The commissioner of police in Kaduna, Musa Garba has stated that Nigerians should stop recruiting underage children as house helps.
Garba made the announcement on Friday at a two-day orientation workshop organized by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Kaduna.
The program is organized on “Nigeria Police Force standard operating procedures (SOP) for handling cases involving children in conflict with the law” for police officers and other stakeholders.
Garba said Nigerians and parents who push their minor children to work for influential people as domestic workers are crippling the rights of child protection.
“If we want to protect the rights of children, we must start from our homes,” he said.
We can’t talk here about protecting children’s rights and then in our homes we have underage children working for us.
“It is wrong to have many children and send them out onto the streets to fend for themselves.
You will see some children under the age of puberty taken to wealthy families to work for them.
“I urge everyone to stop recruiting underage children as the home helps.”
He said the Inspector General of Police “believes that we must always educate our officers not only so that they know the rights of children, but also so that they learn how to protect them”.
The commissioner called for cooperation with stakeholders in dealing with child abuse issues in the state.
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