Protecting girl-child is a moral, societal responsibility – Police

The Nigeria Police Force, the Police Officers’ Wives Association (POWA) and the Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV) person called for an extremity to kid marriage, urging parents, assemblage leaders and policymakers to support the rights of the girl-child and put successful her education, information and future.

The telephone was made during a programme commemorating the 2026 International Day of the Girl Child. The lawsuit was organised done a collaboration betwixt POWA and POCACOV, with elder constabulary officers and child-protection advocates informing that aboriginal matrimony deprives girls of their childhood, acquisition and opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Representing the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Disu, the Deputy Inspector-General of Police successful complaint of Logistics and Supply, DIG Kenechukwu Onwuemelie, described the extortion of the girl-child arsenic some a ineligible work and a motivation work shared by authorities institutions, families and society.

He stressed that poverty, harmful taste practices, sex inequality and insecurity indispensable not beryllium allowed to ju...