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TUC Blames Poverty For Child Labour
President General of Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) Peter Esele, has attributed the prevalence of child labour to high level poverty in the country.
In an interview with newsmen last Thursday in Geneva Esele said the high level of poverty and unemployment in the country was a reflection of lack of social protection.
Esele, who is attending the 101st session of the International Labour Congress, said that giving priority to job creation programmes by all tiers of government was the only solution to tackling the high rate of unemployment in the country
“The governments must introduce new innovative policies to tackle unemployment and inequality in the country.
“To achieve progress, the Federal Government has to initiate measures that would introduce new innovations and build social development models that would go beyond public finance in order to have much wider impact.
“ This can only be done by leveraging private initiatives through public-private partnerships or through social entrepreneurship,” he said.
The TUC’s President General urged the media to hold governments accountable for whatever they say to ensure that they fulfill their promises to Nigerians.
“It is a collective responsibility particularly for those in the media to put everybody on the spot”.