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Support war against child abuse

•NJI tells judicial workers

From OGBU NGENE; Abuja

JUDICIAL workers in the country have been told to join in the battle against child abuse and trafficking in the country.

The plea was made at the opening ceremony of the 9th Biennial Conference of National Association of Women Judges Nigeria (NAWJN) in Abuja.

In his address, the Administrator, National Judicial Institute (NJI) Justice Umaru Eri, noted that that child abuse and trafficking were posing serious threats to the nation's socio economic growth.

Calling for a vigorous war against such a trend, he said, ''the menace of trafficking in persons and the dent it has brought to the image of this country as a corporate entity can hardly be over emphasized.''

He lauded the enactment of an Act for the protection of the “Rights of the Child, as well as the establishment of the National Agency Against / Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons as right steps towards tacking the menace.
The NJI boss said the Institute's Board of Governors, led by the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi, ''has approved that all Judicial Officers in the country support the initiatives of NAPTIP towards the realization of its objectives.''

In her own address, the President NAWJN, Justice C.B. Ogunbiyi, who blamed the menace on parents, the society and cultural background and practices opined that it required “all stakeholders, inclusive of governments and the related interest groups as well as the family to seek lasting solution against such moral decadence”.
In a related development, Ogunbiyi disclosed that NAWJN was set to wade into the recent case of battering of a Lady, Miss Okere in Lagos by ratings of the Nigerian Navy.

'' NAWJN is set to ensure that perpetrators of such dastard acts do not go unpunished severely to serve as determent to others,'' she said.