By Oghenero Eghweree

The Delta State Child’s Rights Implementation Committee says the body will partner with the state government and relevant stakeholders towards achieving its mandate of promoting the enforcement of laws aimed at protecting children and adolescents from violence and abuse.

This was part of resolutions reached in Asaba, the state capital follow a meeting of members of the committee, which include representatives of the clergy, the media, and the ministries of justice, health and education.

The Chairman of the Committee and Permanent Secretary, Delta State Ministry of Women Affairs Mrs. Kevwe Agas, noted the Child’s Right Advocacy committee will also solicit the support of traditional institutions to strengthen the protection of children at the community level.

The Chairman announced that plans have been perfected to replicate the Child Rights Implementation Committee in all twenty five local government areas of the state.

Members of the Child’s Rights Implementation Committee also decried the rise in moral decadence among children in some basic schools, stressing the group will embark on sensitization visit to schools aimed at reversing the trend.

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