Vanguard
19 November 2008
Osogbo-Osun State Government has declared that it was set to implement the Child Rights' Acts to the letter. The bill was signed into law last month by Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
Speaking with newsmen in Osogbo yesterday, at the maiden edition of this year's ministerial press conference, the Commissioner for Information and Youth Development, Mrs. Idiat Aderinto, stated that all the stakeholders needed for its implementation have been mobilised.
Aderinto said her ministry, in collaboration with the Ministries of Women Affairs and Justice have been working to ensure that the Child Rights' Act was implemented to the betterment of the Nigerian child.
She added that violators of child rights in the state will henceforth be punished according to the law of the state, stressing that the government had embarked on a sensitisation of the public to ensure that everybody was aware of his limitations.
"The Ministry of Information on our part has placed various advertisements and jingles on the state radio and television to sensitise the public on the need to comply with the Child Rights' Act as nobody will be spared if the act is abused," she said.
The commissioner added that the ministry in collaboration with some local councils in the state organised a citizenship and leadership training programme for select youths early in the year.
Mrs. Aderinto said the programme which was part of the efforts of the government to develop the youths was organised to inculcate good leadership qualities in them.
she said that Governor Oyinlola as part of his personal interets in the youths of the state held an interactive youths forum with the youths of the state last August.
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