A stern warning has gone out to parents in Sokoto state to ensure that their wards and children must be in class during school hours.
Aminu Tambuwal
The governor of the state, Aminu Tambuwal said that henceforth, parents of kids that roam during school hours will be arrested and prosecuted.
Leadership reported that Tambuwal made this directive at the ongoing 55th 55th annual general conference (AGC) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja, noting that the state will now fully implement the Child Right Act.
The governor called on more lawyers to join the legislative arm of government, pointing that lawyers are crucial to national development.
Tambuwal added that in his entire life, aside of God, the other thing that has helped him is being a lawyer.
He said: “Lawyers in the public service perform a crucial task in national development, especially in the legislature, making laws.”
The former Speaker stressed that lawyers would play a pivotal role in the current anti-corruption war.
Tambuwal said: “This challenge of the anti-corruption war, in my opinion, poses the greatest challenge to lawyers in public office, whether in the legislative, executive or judiciary at the federal, state or local tiers of government. I foresee that in the near future, the contribution of lawyers in public office will be assessed largely based on the success or otherwise of this war.
“I, therefore, call on all of us who are in public office at this point of our history to rise up to this challenge if we are not to be consigned to the harsh judgement of history tomorrow. May God bless our effort in the prosecution of our national development programme.
“It is also important to reflect on the fact that in Nigeria, lawyers are indispensable in the law making process as they possess the exclusive expertise in legal drafting. Both Bills and the end products, the Acts and Laws must be transformed from the legislator’s intention in lay form into legal form by lawyers through legal draftsmanship.”
Meanwhile, the state government had started documenting all unemployed persons in the state in order to fashion the best policies to curtail the rising unemployment rate in the state.
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