The Ondo State Authorities has known as for stronger collaboration amongst stakeholders to boost child safety methods throughout the state amid rising circumstances of child abuse, trafficking, bullying and different social vices affecting kids.
The decision was made on Friday in Akure by the Commissioner for Ladies Affairs and Social Growth, Dr Seun Osamaye, throughout a stakeholders’ engagement organised forward of the 2026 Nationwide Youngsters’s Day celebration.
Osamaye mentioned the engagement fashioned a part of actions lined up for the Might 27 Youngsters’s Day celebration within the state, describing the annual occasion as a reminder of the collective accountability to guard the welfare and future of youngsters.
She expressed concern over persistent challenges similar to child abuse, neglect, trafficking, child labour, abandonment and poor entry to high quality schooling, saying they proceed to threaten the way forward for kids and require pressing intervention from stakeholders.
Osamaye mentioned, “The theme for this 12 months’s celebration, ‘Future now: selling inclusion for each Nigerian child,’ is a powerful name to action for all stakeholders to work collectively in guaranteeing that no child is left behind, no matter gender, incapacity, socio-economic background, faith or ethnicity.
“This stakeholders’ engagement is organised to strengthen collaboration, encourage dialogue and develop methods for a profitable Youngsters’s Day celebration, whereas advancing advocacy for youngsters’s rights.”
The commissioner recommended Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa, his spouse, Oluwaseun, and different stakeholders for his or her continued help for child welfare and safety within the state.
She added that the Aiyedatiwa administration remained dedicated to insurance policies and programmes geared toward strengthening child safety, bettering entry to schooling and healthcare, and selling social inclusion throughout the state.
Osamaye urged mother and father, faculties, communities, faith-based organisations and different stakeholders to work collectively in the direction of making a secure and enabling setting for youngsters.
“As we have fun our youngsters, allow us to keep in mind that the long run we need begins with the funding we make in them at this time,” she mentioned.
In his remarks, the Commissioner for Training, Igbekele Ajibefun, described the theme of the celebration as well timed and instructive, whereas commending the Ministry of Ladies Affairs for its sustained efforts in addressing points affecting kids and ladies within the state.
Ajibefun, represented by his Particular Assistant, Yomi Akinrinmade, confused the necessity for insurance policies centered on child healthcare, security, entry to high quality schooling and abilities improvement in keeping with world requirements for Twenty first-century kids.
He additionally known as for strengthened safety measures in faculties, noting that stakeholders should work collectively to make sure kids are protected and included in nationwide improvement.
The Ondo state authorities has in latest months intensified advocacy on child rights safety and social inclusion by way of community-based programmes and collaborations with related businesses and stakeholders.
