THE Lagos State Government is to begin the arrest of school age children, who roam the streets of the metropolis during school hours.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, disclosed this in his office, weekend.Bamidele said the exercise was in keeping with the commitment of the state government to implement the Child Rights Act and reduce the incidence of child abuse in the state.

He said Governor Babatunde Fashola, in order to make the exercise successful, had approved the procurement of four new buses and the recruitment of 50 ad-hoc staff to assist in the sensitisation of Lagosians before the commencement of arrest of violators.

He added that the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, the agency handling the project, was to commence the distribution of yellow card, which contains relevant information on Child Abuse before the commencement of the arrest. The first phase of the exercise would span 60 days," he said.

The commissioner stated that with government policy on free education, there is no excuse for any school age child to loiter or hawk on the streets of the metropolis, when his or her mates are in school studying.


Bamidele said the nature of Lagos as the nation's melting pot, where everybody wants to work, is throwing up myriad of social challenges, adding that the state government was concerned about the issue of Child Rights Act and child abuse.

He stressed that government through its Social Welfare Department was inundated with issue of child abuse and could not, therefore, as responsible government fold its arms. He pointed out that the state's social welfare institutions had lot of abuse children cases, and most of them are receiving our attention.

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200903301521.html

There will surely be so much unclaimed kids, cos some parents are already looking for how and who to give their kids to, soon, Fashola will be running a Day care close to his office and home, and they better be ready to feed all these kids.
Thank God Lagos has a good children aid

It's a good innovation by d Lagos State govt. Imagine how children roaming d street with & without uniform.

Good idea, keep it up Fashola. Bur i hope all these developments are not solely eye services.

if education is free then why are some kids not in school? lol

weird

It's a good innovation by d Lagos State govt. Imagine how children roaming d street with & without uniform.

What are you gonna do with them after the arrests?. Turn them over to red cross or salvation army?

Why not arrest all these area boys harassing innocent citizens?

Aloy.Emeka:

Why not arrest all these area boys harassing innocent citizens?

Applause!

This is absolutely MADNESS.

camelot:

if education is free then why are some kids not in school? lol

weird

G B A M! If politicians weren't busy stealing, some parents would be able to afford school fees.

Politicians should be arrested and NOT innocent children who are victims of CORRUPTION.