Katsina State House of Assembly has passed into law the Child Protection Bill, 17 years after it’s presentation before the house.
In a plenary chaired by the Deputy Speaker Shehu Dalhatu Tafoki, members unanimously passed the bill.
Speaking with journalists shortly after the passage of the bill, chairman of the committee, Musa Nuhu Gafia, said the was before the since 2003.
He added that the passage of the bill portends a bright future for katsina children as issues concerning child’s right and child abuse were adequately taken care of in the bill including appreciate punishments.
The bill will be forwarded to Governor Aminu Bello Masari for his assent.
Many years ago the students of Kaduna polytechnic are complaining about the difficulties of registration process of the polytechnic.
The students are spending many weeks before they complete their registration, as a result of the long procedure of the registration even with new ICT technology.
This is why the students of polytechnic are asking when the Kaduna polytechnic will adopt new registration process?, and this is a question we asked the Rector of the school Professor Idiris Bugaje during a live Hausa program called A kasa a Fefai of Freedom radio Kaduna.
Abubakar Garba Bala, Zakari Aminu and Professor Idiris Bugaje in the studio during our live program
Professor said the long procedure of registration in Kaduna polytechnic is as result of insincerity of some of the students, some time they try to manipulate the process and claim they have paid school Fees with fake receipt.
The Rector assued the students that management of the school will adopt new technics and do everything possible to make registration process easier to them.
He also advised the students to always avoid manipulating the guidelines of the school more expicialy the registration process.
A child is a special gift from almighty Allah to some special people, because not everyone has a child in life.
We have to know that if you have a child you are special, because you have responsibilities which Allah set up for you to test your ability, because he will judge you on how you handle it.
These children we are seeing are the future leaders of our dear nation and they have parents like everyone. But they are always running on the streets begging for Money and Food with the name of Almajiri which most of them are not real Almajiri that we know in those days.
The real Almajiri in those days are only begging for Food but not money, and they usually go house to house, not in the streets. Some of these children, their parents are living in the city but they send them to streets to get money for them.
This is the new form of child abuse in name of Almajiri that we are battling with, more especially in northern part of Nigeria. Some of the parents have abondon their responsibilities of taking care of what Allah give to them.
Government also has neglected and lost focus on how to solve the menace of children running in the streets in most of our cities in Northern Nigeria.
Finally, the society itself is not helping matters to find the way out to this problem.
We all the stakeholders would take all the necessary measures to tackle this problem.