The United Nations Children’s Fund , has condemned and sought the immediate reversal of the 10-year imprisonment with ‘menial labour’, handed down to 13-year-old Omar Farouq by the Kano State government.
The UN body also stressed that the sentence was in contravention of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Nigeria ratified in 1991. Commending the recent strides by the Kano State Government to pass the Kano State Child Protection Bill, UNICEF pledged continued support in the child protection system strengthening, including justice sector reform, to ensure that states put in place child-sensitive measures to handle cases involving children.
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