Amaechi Tasks African Leaders On Child’s Welfare

As Nigerian children joined their counterparts across the African continent to mark the International Day of the African Child, wife of the governor of Rivers State,  Dame Judith  Amaechi, has charged African leaders to demonstrate sincerity in tackling the plight and suffering of the African Child.

Mrs. Amaechi in a statement to commemorate the 2010 International Day of the African Child said the African Child faces more challenges than their peers in other continents of the world.

The Rivers State Governor’s wife stated that African leaders have failed to provide holistic approach to tackling the plight of the African child, adding that more lip services are paid on the problem of  the children, hence no solution has been proffered.

She expressed worry that cases of poverty, hunger and preventable diseases as well as abuse of the rights of the child to basic education are handled with so much levity, adding that the UNICEF reports on the plight of the world’s  two billion children show that the African child is worse  hit.

Mrs. Amaechi who also lobbied the Rivers State House of Assembly for the passage and domestication of the Child Rights Acts in Rivers State said the 2016 target for stopping all forms of child labour will become a mirage if African leaders fail to rise to their

responsibility.  

Mrs. Amaechi whose non-governmental organization, (NGO) the Empowerment Support Initiative (ESI) initiated the early child education in the 319 wards of Rivers State said the effort is to complement the Rivers State Government in providing a state fit for the child’s education in all ramification adding that it has become a policy to arrest parents who deny their kids of basic education.