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Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by DeepZone: 9:34pm On Nov 21, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Lagos bans hawking by children during school hours

By Kemi Obasola

The Lagos State Government on Thursday said street hawking during school hours would no longer be tolerated in the state.




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The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, said this was the only way to ensure that children of school age are regular and punctual at school during lesson hours.

According to her, the state would henceforth begin to sensitise parents on the need to send their children to school, while law enforcement agents would also be sensitised to arrest errant parents in order to prosecute them to serve as a deterrent to others.

She said, "Education and proper upbringing of our children is the only way to eradicate poverty. The law forbids the use of under-aged children for domestic labour, negligence and maltreatment on the part of parents and guardians as it negates the tenets of the Child Rights law.

"The Lagos State Government through the various agencies of government will ensure the survival, development and protection of all the children in the state, the laws will be enforced to the letter in order to ensure that all the rights of our children are protected."

Orelope-Adefulire, who decried the high rate of child sexual abuse in the country, noted that the problem though universal, had become alarming.

She said, "Therefore, increased attention, efficient protection skills and preventive measures are necessary at family, local, national and international levels.

"My ministry collaborates with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters on issues bordering on women and child trafficking.

"The ministry has embarked on the construction of a shelter for trafficked women and children at Ayobo.

"After a long period of silence, child sexual abuse is being more denounced and becoming a public and political issue."

The commissioner noted that her ministry had decided to produce a simplified version of the Child Rights Law 'so that no one tramples on these rights."

In a related development, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs. Risikat Akiode, has said the ministry is ready to prosecute anyone who abused the fundamental rights of children.

Akiode said awareness would be created among children in the state on their rights. "We will educate them to say no to child sexual abuse and where their rights are being abused, to know the appropriate channel to seek redress," she said.

She said it was a pity that many children who had been sexually abused were dying in silence because of the social stigma attached to survivors of the illicit act.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/nov/21/407.html
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by osisi6(f): 9:42pm On Nov 21, 2008
good move.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by DeepZone: 10:13pm On Nov 21, 2008
Fash is the man. I hope the almajiri states will learn.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by bawomolo(m): 2:57am On Nov 22, 2008
nice, time to stop child abuse
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by dayokanu(m): 1:11pm On Nov 22, 2008
I am sure some people in Naija would complain about this.

If people can complain about tax payment and environmental issues that govt is trying to address in Lagos.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by basking4me: 1:30pm On Nov 22, 2008
Hawking is CHILD ABUSE and sholud be banned in totality.

Banning only during school hours by government suggests that government supports CHILD LABOUR ( whether by the kids themselves or their parents/guardians).

This is wrong. Until we give value to our kids inrrespective of who their parents are, we will keep having ills in the society because these same kids will come to be tommorow.

My suggestions:

1. Total banning of Hawking for kids below 16yrs. Lagos should have a 'child legislation' (proper one of world class standard).

2. Compulsory & free education for kids until they are 16yrs of age. That is what some of what our taxes should do for us, if it isnt enough-then increase the taxes.

3. Total restructuring of the school system in the state.

4. Capital purnishment to erring parents and guardians. Strict adherance is what will solve these menance!
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Seun(m): 1:32pm On Nov 22, 2008
Are you going to provide those children with alternative means of making money to sponsor their education?
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Gamine(f): 1:36pm On Nov 22, 2008
Whats wrong in people working? undecided
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 1:41pm On Nov 22, 2008
DeepZone:

Fash is the man. I hope the almajiri states will learn.

I hope so too. . . . . .

My only concern is the caveat 'during school hours', I hope its a first step !
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 1:47pm On Nov 22, 2008
Seun:

Are you going to provide those children with alternative means of making money to sponsor their education?
Schooling is free,in addition to the fact that parents are mandated by law and the holy books to cater for their offspring !

Gamine:

Whats wrong in people working? undecided

What's wrong with people working?

Nothing at all,as long as they are up to the legal working age .
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Gamine(f): 1:50pm On Nov 22, 2008
In, With

Ya cheesy

Which legal working age?

Same legal sexing age?

undecided

nansense
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by basking4me: 2:01pm On Nov 22, 2008
@Seun & Gamine,

I knew I was going to get that line of argument.

'Quality of life' is determined by the 'value given to life'. If you are opportuned to have gone to a school, only then can you be on nairaland discussing.

If you went to a good school, the reflections show in you,  your core values.

If the two of you must know, hawking is STREELIFE!!,  and on the streets, we've got kids and they,

get indulged in weeds, cigerattes, sex, abortion, pilfering and theivery, untimely deaths, bad attitudes & behaviours, loss of respect for older ones and authority and a whole lot more.

I have only asked that we don't expose these kids to Vices that can impair, both on them and the larger society. At 16, they are still forming a Life, thats the best time to shape them to what the society expects them to be. If you leave it to them to decide, we are all the worse for it,  as prevalent today!

When kids werent hawking, werent people living and going to school & surviving, ?

Some of us here have experienced this way of life,  if you are here reading this and you've experienced Streetlife,  then count yourself lucky,

Submission:
When you respect yourself,  you respect others,  you respect your kids,  and don't put them into the streets when they aint ready for it,
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 2:02pm On Nov 22, 2008
Gamine:

In, With
Ya cheesy
undecided

No problems  wink

Gamine:

Which legal working age?



Please go through Chapter 4 of the Nigerian constitution for more information on this
http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm

Also the  Child's Right Bill recently passed by the Lagos State house of Assembly,coupled with the International Labour Organisation's charters on legal age of workers will help you understand this better.  smiley

Gamine:

Same legal sexing age?
undecided
I don't know about that one o !!  grin
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Seun(m): 2:03pm On Nov 22, 2008
I'm not arguing, I'm just alluding to the law of conservation of income. 
If money is no longer coming in from hawking, it must come from somewhere else.
Let me put it this way: banning Garri will not lead to a balanced diet unless free meat is provided.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 2:07pm On Nov 22, 2008
The father/mother should hawk instead.

There's a cultural side to it & I guess thats why they are limiting it to 'school hours'. . . . . . .for now !


All in all I agree the solution should be multi-faceted & multi-dimensional e.g 'One Child policy',Social Security etc !
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by coolsegun(m): 2:10pm On Nov 22, 2008
then government should provide them means of livelihood.
how do government want the orphan among them to go to school and even the less priviledge in the society.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Gamine(f): 2:12pm On Nov 22, 2008
Pardon me, if i am wrong

but there is such a thing as informal jobs

i know people in the States, that worked as young people below 16

Everybody hates Chris, the dude was 13 and working!

lol
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by basking4me: 2:18pm On Nov 22, 2008
A child having to live STREETLIFE/ HAWK is as a result of the parents not performing their own responsibilities and the kid is cajoled to assist in providing for the home.

It is totally wrong. Its a wrong idea that should be rejected in all form, thats why we all need reorientation.

from this discuss,  we see that the situation is actually multifacet. however starting from an institution' like the kids (the foundation) will actually start putting an end to the wrong notion that kids should slave to live!.

submission;

Child-Hawking is modern slavery to our own!, lets abhor it, angry
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by redsun(m): 2:22pm On Nov 22, 2008
Th meaning of childhood should redefined in nigeria.children should be children not providers.Having children should not be a thing of competition,but an act of life for those that can handle it.

The government on the other hand should do all they can to support deprived parents in bringing up their children through welfare services and other available means.

The whole thing is like a vicious circle,bad government breeds bad parenting and bad parenting breeds bad government.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by basking4me: 2:25pm On Nov 22, 2008
@coolsegun!

Yes you are right!

Government should start taking up its responsibilities especially to our kids. I Am feeling this Lagos administration, thats why am rattling on and on for things that can be done to better our lots, they can do it, what we need is change, for the better.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 2:30pm On Nov 22, 2008
Gamine,
Hawking in itself is a misdememour in most parts of the world (like jaywalking etc).For informal jobs by minors there are rules governing it. If you follow football,you'll notice under-18s can't even be paid for their services & are rather put into an 'academy' till they clock 18 !
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Gamine(f): 2:37pm On Nov 22, 2008
But it still happens,

Children still work, the world over

whether within rules or not.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 2:38pm On Nov 22, 2008
Gamine:

But it still happens,

Children still work, the world over

whether within rules or not.

Armed robbery,corruption,spamming, illegal immigration and other vices still exist world over ,  . . . . . . .

We live in a beautiful but imperfect world.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by UNLEASHED(m): 2:42pm On Nov 22, 2008
Jairzinho:

Schooling is free,in addition to the fact that parents are mandated by law and the holy books to cater for their offspring !

What's wrong with people working?

Nothing at all,as long as they are up to the legal working age .
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by basking4me: 3:21pm On Nov 22, 2008
@Gamine

As you lay your bed, so will you lie on it.

Kids you see on the streets hawking are kids not catered for by government and their folks

Kid grows up and becomes an Abuja stalwart, will you blame him if he refuses to cater for his society!

If you make these kids feel important today by giving them the very best (of which I know Hawking isnt a part of), they will make you feel the same in later years!
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Sauron1: 3:32pm On Nov 22, 2008
DeepZone:

Friday, November 21, 2008
Lagos bans hawking by children during school hours

By Kemi Obasola

The Lagos State Government on Thursday said street hawking during school hours would no longer be tolerated in the state.




advertisement

The Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, said this was the only way to ensure that children of school age are regular and punctual at school during lesson hours.

According to her, the state would henceforth begin to sensitise parents on the need to send their children to school, while law enforcement agents would also be sensitised to arrest errant parents in order to prosecute them to serve as a deterrent to others.

She said, "Education and proper upbringing of our children is the only way to eradicate poverty. The law forbids the use of under-aged children for domestic labour, negligence and maltreatment on the part of parents and guardians as it negates the tenets of the Child Rights law.

"The Lagos State Government through the various agencies of government will ensure the survival, development and protection of all the children in the state, the laws will be enforced to the letter in order to ensure that all the rights of our children are protected."

Orelope-Adefulire, who decried the high rate of child sexual abuse in the country, noted that the problem though universal, had become alarming.

She said, "Therefore, increased attention, efficient protection skills and preventive measures are necessary at family, local, national and international levels.

"My ministry collaborates with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Matters on issues bordering on women and child trafficking.

"The ministry has embarked on the construction of a shelter for trafficked women and children at Ayobo.

"After a long period of silence, child sexual abuse is being more denounced and becoming a public and political issue."

The commissioner noted that her ministry had decided to produce a simplified version of the Child Rights Law 'so that no one tramples on these rights."

In a related development, the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs. Risikat Akiode, has said the ministry is ready to prosecute anyone who abused the fundamental rights of children.

Akiode said awareness would be created among children in the state on their rights. "We will educate them to say no to child sexual abuse and where their rights are being abused, to know the appropriate channel to seek redress," she said.

She said it was a pity that many children who had been sexually abused were dying in silence because of the social stigma attached to survivors of the illicit act.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/nov/21/407.html


CLASSIC!!!!!!
A proper democratic government shoulda addressed this issue before now but kudos to them for making it happen.
Hawking by children is CHILD ABUSE. . . . . . it is as bad as using kids for prostitution or drilling a nail on their heads.
Let the parents put a box of gala sausages on their shoulders. Let the kids go to school.
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Gamine(f): 3:54pm On Nov 22, 2008
@Basking

i get what you mean,

but i see nothing wrong in a child, doing something useful

after school hours
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Damest09(f): 4:14pm On Nov 22, 2008
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Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by basking4me: 4:34pm On Nov 22, 2008
@Gamine

YES!!

Like studying their books real HaRd at home!.

We dont have a shortage of skilled workers yet to facilitate involving kids like the Asian Countries do, more I dont think its morally right. We need to protect them from seeing evil at so little,

I believe Nigeria can change, we do need Change, Our time is now, let us all raise up to the okassion, smiley
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Builder: 4:39pm On Nov 22, 2008
what a stupid move, how will those poor or disabled parents cope with making money? or is lagos state now planning to introduce some kind of welfare state , which i doubt. God help us all from this power-hungry officials
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by ohaechesi(m): 4:40pm On Nov 22, 2008
There is nothing wrong with kids hawking during school hours but everything is wrong for Fash not to implement an avenue for a better lively hood for poor homes/less privileges. The problem with nigeria is that we like imitating the western world without implementing a soft landing for those that it will affect negatively.

It is very possible that if those kids do not hawk, they will not eat neither their parents could afford for them. We all know how hard it is in nigeria for a common man to survive. Those in government will not get the filling but for those that can't smell the corridor of power, the government should first proved a safe landing before implementing any law that could be harmful to the less privilege e.g pay check for every citizen to start with, period. Without working out considerable means of helping poor families/less privileges, then their effort for a better nigerian is baseless. I'm a true nigeria and i know that 80% families are not sure of food on their table not to talk of affording exercise and test books for their kids. so why should people be subjected to a fake life by some daft in the name of a better nigeria. bullshit
Re: Lagos Bans Hawking By Children During School Hours by Jairzinho(m): 5:19pm On Nov 22, 2008
ohaechesi:

There is nothing wrong with kids hawking during school hours but everything is wrong for Fash not to implement an avenue for a better lively hood for poor homes/less privileges. The problem with nigeria is that we like imitating the western world without implementing a soft landing for those that it will affect negatively.

It is very possible that if those kids do not hawk, they will not eat neither their parents could afford for them. We all know how hard it is in nigeria for a common man to survive. Those in government will not get the filling but for those that can't smell the corridor of power, the government should first proved a safe landing before implementing any law that could be harmful to the less privilege e.g pay check for every citizen to start with, period. Without working out considerable means of helping poor families/less privileges, then their effort for a better nigerian is baseless. I'm a true nigeria and i know that 80% families are not sure of food on their table not to talk of affording exercise and test books for their kids. so why should people be subjected to a fake life by some daft in the name of a better nigeria. bullshit

You peolple never cease to amaze me?? Certainly there exists extreme poverty in the land,but saying if the kid does not sell 10 wraps of pure water daily(net profit N10) she won't feed is missing the point.

ITS'S CHILD ABUSE PURE & SIMPLE !!!

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