NDITO ISONG IBOM TAKE CHILD LABOUR PERSONAL TO AVOID CHILD LABOUR TAKING YOU PERSONAL Well sia usuk mbufo eboho ke ayen amamana ama kurua, ufon adibo fut ukod ibaha, nnya dutikke ntang iko ami ke usem se mbon idikanna ikod inyung ibob mainstream iko Akwa Abasi Ibom edikan iunderstand. Ke akwa Ibom, danga ami nkid, nnyin imi nyie culture of hardwork and enterprise. We believe in self actualization, that a man, anybody can become, and achieve whatever he or she can dream if he or she works hard enough at it. We therefore are not always afraid to take up any job, no matter how menial it is. The Akwa Ibom people have therefore always moved, travelled far and wide to try to birth their dreams. Ukpu un doubt ka Wikipedia ke se idaha ndito Akwa Abasi Imam Ibom se idung ke idung awo. Da, edo about 200% si iba ke idung. Hmm, ado... I am attempting to draw your attention, afo ayen Akwa Ibom, to some incidences that may well be a rejoinder to the greater Nigerian discuss on Child marriage vis a vis Child rights that have pervaded our national discuss in the last few weeks that went by. I perceive, nkid mmana understand nte ke uwak mbufo ndito isong with your friends, relatives and people of like mind contributed a great deal to the debate as to whether the clause allowing ‘married girls to be of age’ should reside in our constitution in whatever guise. We took it up at any forum, predictably with much disapproval, positing that the phrase or clause did not have any business occupying the most minute quad in the constitution neither should any grapheme be expended on it. I do not at present know what you make of the status of that change we clamoured for, and whether the assurance of the senate politicians that it will be revisited can be taken as unfailing. This write up, idoho to repeat mme arguments annyin imakinanam but to draw your attention, yes you, to some news item concerning ndito mbufo, ndito Akwa Ibom. Idoho eset ke ukang nnyin eke ebo ke mkpo ama anam anyen ke anam iwuo? I will present here the link to those two news item and you can also read them up in hard copies of the dailies. punchng/news/woman-beats-three-year-old-girl-to-death-for-vomitting 2. pmnewsnigeria/2013/08/02/girl-set-ablaze-by-nurse-dies. These represent typical scenarios of what kids of your shared stock face in a bid adinam mkpo nno me eka ufok ye mme ete ufok ammo, umiang ini, mbon idikoppo uyei iko Akwa Ibom. These children are taken to far flung distances and put to work, slave if you like it, for their buyers. What exactly can we say is the reason our parents, sibling and relatives ship their kids as if they are merchandise to ‘foreign’ territories? I considered poverty, but poverty is not endemic to us, ukang nnyin ikpoong. As a matter of fact, I think we are better endowed than mme itie afen, as in other with a relatively fertile land, aquatic resources, eti climate, mme natural resources afid aNigeria ekamake edia enwana anwan mi. It could possibly be because our nuclear family clusters are larger than those whom my young siblings are sent to serve? I sincerely doubt, because some of these masters and mistresses these children are serving have a larger nuclear unit than even the one ayen mi is coming from. Sia adoho akpasanga isang ayen isidiaha uyie udia ufok eka, these kids therefore miss a chance to acquire oftentimes even the humblest of formal education. In the era of the former governor Obong Victor Attah,I remember,ntoiyo ke AKSG declared basic education free and followed it up. Chief Godswill Akpabio’s government bettered that offer making it inexcusable for anybody bearing our name and carrying our blood to lack formal education. Despite this, the trend seems unabated as we continue to be treated to ndito nnyin ekwokko isong, edo cook, eyet usan, etem mbiot eno ake akab anono ammo ndidia. Ami nnyiehe mfana if the individual is of age and chooses a career as such, at least they know what they are going into. Examine it with me, does it not appear that the cause is neither a lack of educational funding nor poverty as some may claim? Methinks that the etiology of the symptoms such as above is in a subtle philosophy among us, inherited; that we have to co opt the assistance of strangers in taking care of our offspring. The result is a distribution network for ‘calabar’ helps, who front themselves as do-gooders and ferry these kids to their damnation. And then I turn to you. And ask you to review your actions and see if you have not contributed to this malaise. Do you assist ‘your friends’ get a house help from your village? Or maybe you only transported the child to wherever he/she was going to? If and when these ‘transactions’ are entered into in your presence, what always is your reaction? Hmmmm, OK, afo aba k’idung and you see a child, children, whose parents seem incapable of taking positive decisions to chart a course for their wards future, so what? Oh, you don’t even notice! Ete ke anyie ufok ama aben ufok ammo akod ataha, mbohoidung anwam anye asin ikang. I am trying to provoke you to action, howbeit small. Speak, to your relative and acquaintances. Condemn these attitude and school of thought. Discourage them if you ever see them attempt it. Help in other ways if you can. Most importantly, DO SOMETHING. TAKE ACTION. Uyaia, mfoon ndito Akwa Ibom, edian ubok ato keed, ke ubok mmum, ubok mmum, etuud ukpa. Do say there is nothing I can do about it. TAKE IT PERSONAL Thanks UTOMOBONG AKPAN
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 13:31:46 +0000
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