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Appoints Anyafulu As SSA Child Rights
Advocacy
Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi
Okowa has urged Nigerians to respect the rights of the child and create an
enabling environment to realise his or her potentials.
Speaking Friday [27-05-16] at the grand
finale of the 2016 National Children’s Day Celebration in Asaba, Governor Okowa
said that the Nigerian Child like his counterparts worldwide has an inalienable
right to be protected from all forms of abuses and exploitation and
inculcated with the right societal values and norms so as to realise his
potentials.
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| Governor Okowa receiving a bouquet of flowers from a child on arrival for the Children's Day celebration at the cenotaph, Asaba |
He said that “As spelt out by the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Nigerian child, like
his colleagues all over the world, has inalienable right “to survival, to
develop to the fullest, to protection from harmful influences, abuse and
exploitation and to participate fully in family, cultural and social life.” The
Delta State Child’s Right Act has domesticated these principles”
“ All Nigerians, irrespective of
background, should co-operate with the goal of making the country a place worth
living in, with a clement environment that makes the realization of full
potentials of our children attainable.”, he added.
The governor who described the theme of
the celebration – Protect the Right of the Child in the Face of
Violence and Insecurity: End all Forms of Abuses - as apt advanced the
need “to re-orientate our parents, caregivers and all stakeholders, to respect
the rights of children and help to make them what they are destined to be.”
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| Governor Okowa presenting a cheque to child for scholarship made available by Zenith Bank PLC. |
He used the occasion to appoint a
Senior Special Assistant, [Child Rights Advocacy] Ms Bridget Anyafulu to place
emphasis on the protection of the rights of the child in our society.
Senator Okowa reiterated his
administration’s commitment to the growth, welfare and development of
the Delta Child stressing that government would provide a
conducive environment for the children to achieve his potentials, acquire
education and technical skills, as the real asset for the growth of the State.
He appealed to all Deltans especially
parents, and guardians to inculcate in the children “the values that
distinguish us as a unique people so that our future would be insulated from
the ravaging incursion of negative values threatening to corrode the foundation
of our common heritage.”
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| Colorful Delta children in a match past at Children's day celebration in Asaba. |
The celebration which featured
colourful march past, dances, choreographic displays and drama has in
attendance the state First Lady, Dame Edith Okowa, Wife of the Deputy Governor,
Engr. Ebi Otuaro, Member Representing Oshimili/Aniocha Federal Constituency, Mrs.
Joan Onyeamaechi Mrakpor, Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Monday Igbuya,
Members of state House of Assembly and other Top Government Functionaries.
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