Plateau government vows to enforce laws against child marriage, warns offenders

The Plateau State Government has vowed to enforce existing laws against kid marriage, informing that individuals progressive successful the signifier volition look ineligible consequences.

The Chairperson of the Plateau State Gender and Equal Opportunities Commission, Olivia Dazyem, gave the informing during a roundtable treatment connected kid matrimony and teenage gestation successful the state.

The gathering brought unneurotic assemblage and spiritual leaders, teachers, sex advocates and pistillate students from assorted secondary schools to sermon the causes and consequences of kid matrimony and its interaction connected the miss child.

During the engagement, students were besides educated connected the dangers of aboriginal matrimony and its implications for their future.

The committee described kid matrimony arsenic a superior societal interest requiring corporate intervention, noting that its consequences widen beyond the affected girls to their families and nine astatine large.

Community leaders astatine the gathering pledged to intensify consciousness campaigns successful their respective communities a...