UNICEF Advocates for passage of child protection bill in Kano

The United Nations Children Fund UNICEF has renewed calls on relevant Authorities in ensuring that the Child Protection bill was being pass into law.

The UNICEF, Chief of Kano field office, Rahama Farah made the call during a football tournament organized between some selected Kano school children and Kannywood team to commemorate the children’s day with theme “Discrimination, Exclusion and Inequality,” in commemoration of the world childrens day celebration.

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 “In Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States, many children are still out of school, don’t have rights to access education, nutrition, birth certificates, they are deprived of their basic rights.

“We (community leaders, policy makers and others) have to put our hands together on deck to protect the rights of the children.

“I will take this opportunity, to call on the Kano State government and the members of the house of assembly to enact the law that protects the children. We have a pending bill that needs to be passed into law in Kano State. We encourage the parliamentarian to facilitate the passage of the bill into law because we believe that will guarantee the protection of the rights of children in Kano state,” Farah stated.

In his remarks a famous Kannywood actor, Ali Nuhu said passing the child protection bill will a vital role in protecting the rights of children who are the future leaders of tomorrow.

The mini football tournament ended 4 – 2 in favour of the Kannywood team, shortly after the March trophy was presented  to the winner as well as medals to all participants by officials.