Any child that is not registered is lost, the child is without identity and the child is vulnerable to child trafficking, child labour and early marriage,
To this end, the United Nations Children’s Fund is also supporting the Government of Nigeria through the National Population Commission, NPC to explore innovative measures and strategies to ensure every child that is born is registered at birth.UNICEF’s child protection specialist, Fatimah Adamu, while speaking during a two-day media dialogue in Kano State, said birth registration is the core part of identity documents for every child.
Meanwhile, to ensure that every child is registered and planned for by the government, schools in Nasarawa Local Government of Kano state have made birth certificate a criterion for enrolment of pupils into primary schools. Malam Rabiu Mukhtar, the Education Secretary, Nasarawa local government said schools in the vicinity are making it mandatory for parents to register their children before being admitted to school.
On the issue of some children still roaming the streets of Kano, he said most of them are in school, the out of school children roaming the street, according to him, are mostly from neighboring states who fled due to insecurity.
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