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By Ndubuisi Ugah, 12.04.2004
Executive Director, Women’s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON), Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi has decried the rising cases of child labour in Nigeria, saying the Federal Government should find alternative means of resolving the issue as it was becoming one of grave concerns that needed urgent attention. Olateru-Olagbegi, who spoke in Lagos yesterday, at a “Consultative Forum On Child Labour And Child Trafficking” said “millions of Nigerian children are engaged in one form of labour or the other some of which are hazardous and inimical to the growth and development of our child”. She noted that “Lagos State and other commercial cities all around Nigeria have become the centres for receiving children from the rural areas and neighbouring countries, who work as domestic servants and other worst forms of labour”. According to her, “most of these children are subjected to physical and sexual abuse”, adding that “worse still, these children are denied education or vocational training, such that they are ill-equipped to face the future challenges or to make any meaningful contribution to productivity or development of their family economy but also that of the nation at large. “Imagine if the large percentage of Nigerian children, who are in labour are left in this state to grow to become the adult population in future Nigeria, it will mean a nation of uneducated, unskilled and highly traumatised population that would constitute more of a handicap than promoters of sustainable development”, she argued. She, therefore, observed that that was why WOCON, in partnership with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) decided to organise the workshop with the aim of finding ways to eliminate child labour. Olateru-Olagbegi said in order to achieve results, “WOCON embarks on a search for the children in domestic work or prostitution and place them in schools or vocational training according to their needs. Those who do not want to go to regular schools are provided basic literacy training to build their capacity.
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