One year after PREMIUM TIMES report, Oyo govt moves to tackle child labour

One year after PREMIUM TIMES reported how children struggle for survival in Oyo, Governor Seyi Makinde, has said such parents will soon be jailed after economic palliatives are provided., revealed how children battle for survival in Oyo State.

The communities are Olodo, Kajola, Iyana Church, Iyana Agbala, Gbagi and Iwo Road where enrolment into primary and junior secondary is in shambles.The previous administration did not respond to PREMIUM TIMES enquiries on the menace of children workers. “On school aged children hawking: there is an existing law which makes basic education mandatory. According to the law, parents of these children should be jailed. However, we recognise that poverty causes this and this makes it difficult to enforce.

“When we’ve done all we can to assist and see that parents are still putting their economic interests over those of their children, then we will enforce the law. I appeal to parents to cooperate and send these children to school,” he said.Mr Makinde also spoke about Oyo State taking over Ladoke Akintola University of Technology . The university is owned by Oyo and Osun states.“On LAUTECH: Yesterday, the governing council came to see me and we discussed all these.

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