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CHILD’S RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITY LAW (CRRL) OF ENUGU STATE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: A STUDY OF UZO UWANI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
ABSTRACT
This study is an analytical and in-depth examination of the provisions of the Child Rights Act in Nigeria and the Child’s Rights and responsibility law in Enugu State and its Corollary implementation challenges in rural communities, focusing on Uzo Uwani Local Government Area as a case study. The parental Act (Child’s Rights Act) came into existence in Nigeria in 2003 in response to the desired domestication of the United Nations Convention on Child’s Rights, which has its prime objective of protecting children against all manner of abuse. Enugu State in line with many other states in Nigeria passed its own Child’s Rights and Responsibility Law (CRRL) in 2016, in bid to achieve a successful implementation of Child’s Rights in the state. Unfortunately the objective has not been fully achieved due to a lot of challenges in the process, particular in the rural areas in Enugu State. It is against this background that this paper becomes relevant, as it examined Child’s Rights and Responsibility Law of Enugu State and the challenges facing its implementation in the rural areas using Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area as a place of emphasis. The paper used doctrinal and content analysis of relevant literature on child rights in Nigeria and Enugu state in particular. It proposed some recommendations, among which includes sensitization of religious and traditional parents on certain harmful practices that should be abolished where the child is concerned, which includes prohibition of female genital mutilation, inscription of tattoo and tribal marks; encouragement of free education and scholarship for the less privileged; corrective measures to be applied to any parent that subject any of their children to hawking during school hours and the Child’s Rights implementation committee to be established in the respective 17 Council areas in Enugu state in close contact with rural communities.
Keywords: Child’s Rights and Responsibility Law, Child’s Rights Act, Child Abuse, Rural Area, Implementation Challenges.