Children’s Day: Kuje council vows conducive atmosphere

Kuje area council celebrated this year’s Children’s Day with a pledge to create a conducive atmosphere for the children to grow and realise their future Addressing the children on Monday, the chairman, Kuje area council, Alhaji Abdullahi Danladi Galadima, said Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, to encourage all countries to “firstly to promote mutual exchange and understand and secondly to initiate action to benefit and promote the welfare of the world’s children.” The chairman, who was represented by his deputy, Ismaila Duda, said in line with the giant strides made by the federal government, “Kuje area council administration on its part is ensuring, as a priority, that children in Kuje are adequately catered for educationally through donation of books, health facilities, prevention of child and maternal mortality and immunisation, and working hand in hand with security agencies to bring to book children abusers and campaign against child labour.” According to him, his administration is working toward giving the children a voice by establishing the children parliament, that will enable them to celebrate their plight through representatives and help the government at the local level draw up polices that will improve their welfare.
He called on parents and children to summon courage to report any child that abuses the Act to the appropriate authorities.
Earlier, in his address, the Local Education Authority (LEA) Secretary, Comrade Bulus Danladi, urged stakeholders “in this project; be it governments, parents, traditional authorities, agencies, religious leaders, NGOs, spirited individuals and everyone to partner withus in making our children’s future brighter.” He said efforts had been made to keep “our teachers in high spirits while performing their duties by ensuring that only qualified ones are in the fi eld.” Danladi pointed out that a teacher’s performance “will be continuously upgraded through training and retraining, our school will continue to enjoy appropriate and adequate instructional material while our teachers will also be motivated through promotions, prompt payment of salaries and allowances.”