Nigerian children still dumped in orphanages over poverty – Right advocate raises alarm

Child Rights Advocate, Eghosa A Erhumwunse has decried the rising fig of children entering residential attraction not due to the fact that they person nary families, but due to the fact that their families are overwhelmed by poverty, displacement and deficiency of support.

Erhumwunse raised the interest connected Tuesday astatine the National Alternative Care Consultative Forum successful Abuja.

He noted that though Nigeria has bully kid extortion laws, including the Child Rights Act and the National Guidelines for Alternative Care, having bully policies is not the aforesaid arsenic having a functioning system.

“Too galore children inactive participate residential attraction due to the fact that families are overwhelmed by poverty, displacement, disability, conflict, abuse, neglect oregon deficiency of support,” helium said.

Erhumwunse who is the National Director of SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria asserted that gatekeeping remains inconsistent, societal workers are overstretched, information is fragmented, financing is inadequate and children are inactive excluded from decisions affecting them.

He disclosed that astatine the extremity of 2025, lone 5 states formally adopted the National Guidelines into authorities practice, describing it arsenic advancement but besides a motion of the standard of enactment ahead.

He challenged stakeholders, including the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, 36 authorities directors of kid welfare, the EU, UNICEF, Save the Children, Plan International and members of the judiciary, to m...