International Day of the Girl Child - Nigeria Needs to Do More PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
Peace was at her roadside shop located at Festac Gate, Lagos where she sells cooked and peppered cow skin. She looked very sad and dejected as I approached her. Just 20, she is raising her four children from a failed marriage alone.Noticing that she was still absent-minded, I asked her what the problem was. Her story centres on her experience as a victim of child marriage.
"My worry now is how I will take care of my four children. I was thinking of how to make up their school fees just now," she explained., which has drawn attention to issues that concern girls in Nigeria and across the world. The report states that numerous states in Nigeria have failed to domesticate the federal Child Rights Act , especially in the northern part of the country.
"We have cases of couples who have been married for less than five years and are in abusive situations. So the fact that the international day started 10 years ago hasn't helped reduce the cases of domestic violence in many instances," she said. "Government needs to do a lot to build the courage of young girls so that reporting will be more. Do a lot of sensitising and taking the community people into consideration when putting laws in place, as well as give adequate funding to necessary bodies in charge of dealing with these perpetrators," she said.
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