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34 Detained Children Empowered With Different Skills In Kwara
Kwara State government in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), have empowered Children who have been remanded in borstal centers for alleged crimes in the past.
Speaking at the event, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, noted that One Hundred and Three (103) adolescents who had been convicted of theft and rape were released. Out of them, sixty-five (65) were assessed while thirty (30) were empowered.
The Governor, represented at the event by the Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr John Bello explained that the UNICEF empowered additional thirty-four (34) ex-convicts in eighteen (18) different skills with a view to reintegrating them back to society.
In an address, the Commissioner for Social Development, Mrs Abosede Buraimoh advised the empowered children to make good use the equipment given to them to better their lives and society.
Representative of UNICEF, Dr. Wilfred Mamman, lauded the role played by Kwara State Government in re-integrating the children back to the society, calling the children to be brave, as the future holds more prospects for them despite being “detained for committing no offense”.
Mr. Mamman stressed that the Kwara Child’s Right Law empowers children to be given special treatment.
Mr AbdulRafui Olamilekan, who spoke on behalf of the children thanked the Kwara State Government and the UNICEF for the empowerment, adding that the skills and kits given would be utilized judiciously.
Items distributed included tools and kits for electrical works, events planning, fashion Designing, Bricklaying, Tailoring, Metal Works (welding), I.T (Computer set), Aluminum Works, Vulcanizing, Wiring, Clothes Weaving (Aso Oke), Photography, and Solar Installation amongst other.
By Abdullah Ahmed
