The Senate on Thursday asked the Federal Government to intensify moves to stop violence against children. The upper chamber said such advocacy should be conducted through the National Orientation Agency (NOA). The resolution followed a motion on 2016 Children Day celebration with the theme:“Stop violence against children,” sponsored by Senator Oluremi Tinubu, (Lagos Central) and eight others. Apart intensifying advocacy to curb violence against children, the Senate urged the government not relent in its effort to bring back home all abducted and missing children safely. It also mandated its joint committee on Women Affairs and Health to visit Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps to look into the health and welfare of women and children and recommend appropriately to the Senate. It commended the initiative by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) that medical doctors and other health professionals be deployed to serve in IDPs camps around the country.

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