Yobe to set up child protection commission

Yobe State Government has unveiled plans to found a Child Protection Commission to tackle maltreatment cases and heighten the payment of children successful the state.

The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Abubakar Bukar Kagu, disclosed this connected Sunday, saying the projected committee volition service arsenic a specialized instauration for addressing child-related violations and ensuring justness for victims.

According to Kagu, the thought emerged aft engagements with cardinal justness assemblage stakeholders, including the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, the Law Officers Association, and different civilian nine groups, who raised concerns implicit gaps successful kid extortion mechanisms successful the state.

"Years of insurgency person compounded these societal challenges, particularly for children. Hence, it is astir clip for a new, broad and much robust model for their protection", helium said.

He noted that the existent structure, which relies connected a azygous table serviceman and a fewer committees, is grossly inadequate to grip the increasing cases of kid maltreatment and neglect, particularly successful the aftermath of years of insurgency that near galore children vulnerable.

Kagu said the Ministry of Justice has been mandated to draught a connection for the instauration of the committee for information by Governor Mai Mala Buni.

"Our intent is to bring connected committee a caller quasi-judicial architecture with powers to person complaints, summon persons, analyse issues/reports, clasp inquiries, notation cases for prosecution, and marque recommendations to applicable bodies, including the State Assembly", Kagu said.

He added that it volition besides person its ain fund and unit to alteration it to run efficaciously with afloat absorption connected kid payment issues.

The Attorney-General stressed that the authorities is determined to guarantee that violators of children's rights look the afloat value of the law.

He recalled that Governor Buni had earlier assented to the Yobe State Child Protection Law 2022 and the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law 2022, which supply the ineligible model for protecting children and different susceptible groups.

The projected commission, helium added, volition physique connected existing laws to supply a stronger organization effect to kid extortion challenges successful Yobe.

Yobe to acceptable up kid extortion committee