He said that according to ILO, the UN has warned that the absence of mitigating strategies could pose an exponential increase in the number of children engaged in child labour, which would certainly have massive implications for the future.

He added that child labour such as hawkings and other forms of modern slavery on Nigeria highways are identified gaps that call for concerted efforts from all stakeholders in the development of monitoring infrastructure to determine and measure the magnitude, transportation, dimensions, and characteristics of child labor at the national and state roads of Nigeria.

“We are very optimistic about the credibility of the technical support and mitigation strategies that will emerge from our partnerships and how they can enhance the conduct of road marshals in responding to issues of child labour while discharging their duties”, he maintained.

While responding, the Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu, FCNA, CPA, ably represented by ACM Pauline P. Olaye commended the Special Monitoring Mission of the International Human Rights Commission, noting that FRSC has been working on advocacy programs for schools, churches, mosques, and market places to improve awareness of people against some of these menaces including child labour.

She also urged IHRC to focus sensitization programs in such places particularly schools and churches where children can be taught at their early stage in life.

Meanwhile, the duo groups reinstated the establishment of the Human Rights Desk at the FRSC, Special Marshal Unit at IHRC, alongside the Training of FRSC personnel on Human Rights Perspectives by IHRC.

Other SMM Officials at the meeting were Fidelis Onakpoma, Head of Media and Strategic Communications IHRC Nigeria; Comrade Adèoye David, Zonal Volunteers Coordinator Abuja; Comrade Odion Ikyo, Assistant Zonal Volunteers Coordinator in Abuja; Comrade Nnamdi Christian from the ICT Department; Comrade Devine Erochukwu, Social Welfare and Oseghale Marian O.


Reported
Fidelis Onakpoma
Head, Media and Strategic Communications, IHRC Nigeria.
July 11th, 2023.

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It is argued that children in Nigeria are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including commercial sexual exploitation and use in armed conflict as well as quarrying granite and artisanal mining. Nigeria continues to be a source, transit, and destination country for forced labor and sex trafficking of both adults and children.

Trafficked Nigerians are recruited from primarily rural areas within the country, with women and girls recruited for domestic service and sex trafficking while boys are recruited for street vending, domestic service, mining, agriculture, and begging. (1) Benin City, the capital of Edo State, continues to be a major.

The consequences of child labor on children are devastating – with ripple effects that can last a lifetime as it violates the right of every child to be a child and to grow up free from exploitation, abuse, and violence. To this end, the Ambassador at Large and Head of Diplomatic Mission IHRC Nigeria, H.E. Ambassador Dr. Duru Hezekiah, honored the invitation of the Economic Community of the Western African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Abuja, Nigeria on taking stock and sustaining the commitment of the ECOWAS Parliament against child labor.

The event is a Follow-up workshop jointly organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), and in cooperation with the Parliament of the Economic Community of the Western African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Abuja, Nigeria on the 18th May 2023.

IHRC Officials at the event were Itodo Victor Esq, Mr. Timnan Dapchir Emmanuel and Fidelis Onakpoma as the National Volunteers Coordinator, NVC Elijah Vitus Echendu helped in the facilitation.

Reported
Fidelis Onakpoma
IHRC Head of Media, Nigeria.
May 19th, 2023.

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