Ogun Govt warns hospitality industry operators against child labour, exploitation

Members of the Hoteliers Association of Nigeria, HAN, and associated hospitality associations crossed Ogun State person been directed to sensitise operators connected the prohibition of kid labour and each forms of exploitation of minors.

This was contained successful a connection signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Quudus Yusuf, on Monday.

Yusuf stated that the directive placed accent connected the State Government’s unwavering committedness to protecting the rights, dignity and payment of each kid successful enactment with the Ogun State Child Rights Law and different extant laws.

According to the statement, underage children are prohibited from engaging successful precocious nighttime concern activities and should not beryllium recovered successful immoderate situation that would exposure them to abuse, exploitation oregon different forms of harm.

The authorities besides frowned against the usage of minors to exemplary indecent oregon sexually seductive covering oregon contented for commercial, promotional, advertizing oregon societal media purposes, arsenic good arsenic involving children successful activities with intersexual connotations oregon immoderate different exploitative practices susceptible of undermining their rights, dignity and steadfast development.

The imperishable caput noted that immoderate stakeholder recovered violating the directives would beryllium sanctioned successful accordance with the law.

He urged the hospitality manufacture operators to afloat comply with the directives and s...