THE candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr Akinloye Ayegbusi, has said that he will criminalise street hawking by children in the state just as he called for greater government attention to the plight of Nigerian children.
Ayegbusi said while felicitating with children on the occasion of this year’s international children’s day, at Ikole-Ekiti, that if elected governor, he would sponsor a bill to ban street hawking by children of school age during school hours.
He said the bill would also ensure that parents of such children would be sanctioned.
The SDP candidate lamented that children still suffered child labour, domestic violence and deprivations he said were occasioned by poverty and ignorance in Nigeria and beyond.
He said: “We must devote more care and attention to the well-being of the children. If the children…
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