OUR CHILDREN NEEDS PROTECTION IN SCHOOLS



    OUR CHILDREN NEEDS PROTECTION IN SCHOOLS
C (2018)   C NDUBUISI      27/02/2018              WEEK 9

“The world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build today”. Jonathan Sacks






Peace be upon you. 

We were regaled with news about the abduction of over one hundred school girls in Yobe, Adamawa state Nigerian. The Federal Government confirmed that 110 pupils of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are still unaccounted for after Boko Haram terrorists invaded their school as a newspaper reported.

I can vividly recall a song we sang back in primary school; it goes thus:
“Parents listen to your children
For we are the future generation
Help and build our schools
And give us sound education”

Going through the Convention on the Right of the Child and The African Charter on the Rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) some messages remains very sacrosanct in all these documents. These points includes
·         Fighting Child trafficking
·         Stopping Child marriage
·         Supporting children educationally
·         Providing them good health services
·         Fighting child labour
·         Child drug use
·         Child sexual exploitation
·         Child torture
·         Child soldiers
·         Helping children without parents and incarcerated parents

In all these indices enumerated, where is Nigeria standing? What efforts are we making to secure the future for our children? Shall we continue to build schools were our children will be kidnapped?

The world is opening more to the girl child while we in Nigeria are abducting ours and taking them back too stone age. The Chibok girl saga is still a sad reminder. 

It is important to note that “wars are won by weapons but it takes ideas to win peace” and these ideas can be partly generated in schools.

Gaspar Jovellance notes that “numerous are the streams that leads to social prosperity but all spring from the same source and that is public education”.
Peace be upon you.

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