Gamine:

Live lolly pop, EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW

I wasnt Hawking anything

i said i WORKED

I actually witnessed an incident like yours at the back of my friend's office in Opebi last year; we caught it on camera. The young security man cornered this Agege bread girl and grind the hell out of the girl as if Jesus was going to come that afternoon. It was fun watching the show.
Good thing was that the girl seemed to be above 20.

Are you going to provide those children with alternative means of making money to sponsor their education?
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.

Double N:

if all was well,will these children be hawking at all?

bawomolo:

since when was it the responsibility of a child to sponsor their education.

bawomolo:

next thing, a child should be pay for his/her vaccination. na by force make you born a football team?

bawomolo:

if all is well, these people would buy a gold circle condom

It has never been the responsibility of a child BUT you and I know really well that a lot of kids in the region are made to bear that responsibility and more.

I remember one particular one who had to hawk in the mornings at the bus stop to feed her siblings.

How many years have condoms been in circulation in Nigeria? Has the number of AIDS infections been drastically reduced since then?

Long before condoms I heard about mandatory family planning on TV, radio etc in Nigeria, so these parents can't they couldn't do anything about the number of unplanned kids they have.

1) Do we all really believe that only the ILLITERATE ones do this? We have many educated Illiterates in that country who commit some of these ills.

2) Do all these people really believe these kids are from God? I beg to differ. In my opinion, we have people down there who think having kids means free labourers. That seems to be what I see when I look at some of these cases. This has little to do with belief in God but more to do with individual perceptions of what role children play in a family and community as a whole.

RedHotChic:

85% of them are illiterates and polygamists.

RedHotChic:

It's like you've alienated yourself from Nigeria for so long. The reason above is so obsolete especially in the South because they are scarcely agrarian.

MAURI:

To the people who oppose this measure by the Lagos state govt. It’s always good to oppose and make things discussable, this can only lead to improvements so long it’s done in objectivity with content and substance. I do support this measure, and I am aware that this can lead to temporary income vacuum for some people.

MAURI:

This measure has as part of it’s core goals the protection of the children in question, who in the first place are victims of their parents who have set them in this world and have refused to take up their responsibilities as parents by providing them with the basics they need in the early years of their lives to form them as normal individuals to function properly in the society. Should we continue to double-punish these kids, by allowing their daily nightmare to persist? Because their parents have failed them, should the society and state continue to fail them too?

MAURI:

I am from Nigeria, and I am aware of the cultural and traditional aspect of this issue, in that some parent brings forth kids into this world to cater for them in their old age. Even going by this theory, would it not be better to first provide these kids with good foundation? In any case, to the opponents, the question is considering the mass abuse that these children encounter and the imminent risks they are exposed to daily, some of which are already mentioned, so your position is to do nothing and let things remain the way they are?

MAURI:

To project a clearer picture on the consequencies of this issue, an independent reseach should be conducted on the traumatic impact/effect this issue has on a lot of these children i.e. arm robbery, school drop-outs, prostitution, early/unwanted pregnacies, ritual killings, missing children etc. In short; wasted children, wasted future and the impact of this on our society/country. If we need a change of orientation, which I am sure a lot of people will agree with me we do, the best place to start is with the millions of vulnerable children roaming Nigerian streets.

MAURI:

We are currently experiencing a lot of absurdities in Nigerian, among other reasons due to the fact that a few generations of our youths are lost, and it’s only logical to try and go to the root cause of some of these problems and address it.
Of course any form of change brings with it temporary agros and challenges. On these particular issue, I am of the opinion that the long-term prospects outweights the temporary incovenience that some people might experience, which will eventually lead to a win-win situation for all parties. It’s time we started thinking long term for the sake of the future of our country and future generations.

Are we in this case assuming that the reason why these kids do not go to school is because they are out street hawking during those hours? I am not sure that this close to true for even 10% of those affected in that country.

what about the ones in our homes that work as domestic servants. abi those ones sef no be pikin? while our kids are in school, we make them stay home and do nothing.

must_a_far:

what about the ones in our homes that work as domestic servants. abi those ones sef no be pikin? while our kids are in school, we make them stay home and do nothing.

most sensible [/b]people send their househelps to school these days, albeit public schools.