The Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has advised school children to familiarise themselves with the Nigerian Constitution in other to fight for their rights.
Dr. Saraki gave the advice on Friday when some school children visited him as parts of activities to mark this year’s Children’s Day.
He promised that the government would continue to work to protect the rights of children.
The assurance by the Senate President is coming on a day some groups marking this year’s Children’s Day in Abuja appealed to the government to intensify campaigns that discourage violence against children and punish perpetrators.
The 27 day of May is set aside by the United Nations to celebrate Children’s Day.
The theme for this year’s celebration is “Protect the Rights of the Children in the Face of Violence and Insecurity and End Child Marriage”.
Away from the Senate President’s office, rights groups, march round Abuja, Nigeria’s capital to protest against violence against children.
They are asking the government to enforce existing laws and punish those who perpetrate violence against children.
Regarding the estimated 1.2 million displaced children in the northeast, the Director of Test Administration with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Lawal Yusuf, said the rights of those children to education could be protected by providing education in the camps of the Internally Displaced Persons.
The theme for this year’s Children’s Day celebration sheds light on the level of violence children suffer around the globe.
It also calls on all to end such violence whatever forms they may take.
