The Director-General, Legal Aid Council, Aliyu Abubakar, has lauded Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State for the signing into law the Child Protection Executive Order and the Nasarawa State Anti- Kidnapping law 2020.
Governor Sule, yesterday in Lafia signed into law the Child Protection Executive Order, Nasarawa State Anti- Kidnapping law 2020 and inaugurated the Penal Code Reform Committee and Community Volunteer Guards (Vigilante) Committee.
The Child Protection Executive Order is expected to protect children from exploitation and abuse, neglect, abandonment while at the same time guaranteeing education and a secured future for full implementation of the Child Rights Law of Nigeria.
Abubakar told journalists after the event that the signing of both laws will have significant impact in the day- to- day activities in the state especially with regards to street begging and reduction of kidnapping in the state and its environs.
“The benefit of this law is that it will stop the system of begging for alms by the almajiri.
“Secondly, the second arm of legislation which is the kidnapping law is intended to check the menace of kidnapping and other vices that are a serious threat not only Nasarawa State but the country in general.
“I want to believe that these are pieces of legislation if properly harnessed and put together, in fact, they will assist the country and Nasarawa, in particular, some level of peace and security.
“So I congratulate the governor for taking this step of signing these legislations into law because it is a step in the right direction,” he said
The Legal Aid Council Director-General also lauded the governor for inaugurating the state Penal Code Reform committee and for ensuring that the legal aid council is part of the committee that will take a critical look at the penal code with a view to reforming it.
“The governor thought it fit and wise to set up the committee which legal aid council is part of so that they can review the law to see the areas which can be modified to fit the current realities of our time,” he said.
