Nigeria: Abuse - Judge Lambasts States Delaying Domestication of Child Rights Law

27 May 2016

A Judge of the Federal High Court, Ado Ekiti, Justice Taiwo Taiwo, has lambasted some states for foot-dragging with regards to the domestication and implementation of the child rights law.

He regretted that only 24 out of the 36 states of the federation had adopted the law with Lagos coming first. He lamented that some states that had domesticated it were also not thorough

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