While the working condition of child labourers can be sub-human, some of them are forced to work more than 12 hours a day. Some child prostitutes are forced to participate in sexual acts that permanently ruin their innocence. Most of them are paid a pittance for the long hours of work. One cannot imagine our own children going through the same plight.
In addition, the minimum age for work in the Labour Act does not apply to children who are self-employed or working in the informal economy, which does not conform to international standards that require all children to be protected by the minimum age to work. Achild Rights Activists Mrs Ekuma Ekpekpe who appealed to NAPTIP to scale up surveillance lamented that despite the high level of awareness and advocacy to enhance the understanding of stakeholders on the inherent dangers of child labour, some few unpatriotic employers are still engaging the services of children in work places like cocoa and palm plantations, quarries and other hazardous places.”
Dr Usman Fatima said the trend on the lack of family planning which enable parents to give birth to the number of children they can adequately cater for. However, where uninformed parents fail to take advantage of available family planning methods, the consequence generally is an over blotted family size well beyond the means of such parents.
LEADERSHIP Weekend warns that interfering with this part of children’s lives could create an imbalance in their growth and development, and implores the state Houses of Assembly who had yet to pass the Child Rights Act to do so in order to put an end to the menace. The report points to a significant rise in the number of children aged 5 to 11 years in child labour, who now account for just over half of the total global figure. The number of children aged 5 to 17 years in hazardous work – defined as work that is likely to harm their health, safety or morals – has risen by 6.5 million to 79 million since 2016.
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