The Kebbi State House of Assembly has passed a bill for a law to protect the rights of children in the State and other related matters.
In a statement by Governor Bagudu’s Special Adviser on Media, Yahaya Sarki, it said the Bill was passed by the House following the presentation of a report by the House Committee on Justice and Judiciary which led to deliberations by the Committee of the House where the Bill was read for the 3rd time and subsequently passed into law.
According to the Chairman of Justice and Judiciary Committee, Barrister Aminu Muhammed Bunza while presenting the Committee’s report at plenary, explained that the committee studied Bills and made a comparison with laws of other states such as Sokoto, Kano and Kaduna to ascertain the extent of the laws in those states.
He also said that the Committee visited four Emirates headquarters of the state to entertain views of Royal fathers and sensitized the public as well as organized a public hearing involving Council of Ulama and Civil society organizations in the state among others to X-ray religious and moral implications of the Bill.
It would be recalled that the Kebbi State Governor, Senator Atiku Bagudu under whose tenure the Bill was sent to the House and his wife, a consultant paediatrician Dr Zainab Shinkafi Bagudu mobilized CSOs to advocate for the passage of the Bill for the Protection of the Rights of Children of Kebbi State.
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