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The Benue State House of Assembly has urged the Commissioner of Police and the Director of State Services (DSS) to behaviour an probe into the rising cases of missing children.
The telephone was sequel to a question moved by Mr Douglas Akya (APC/Makurdi South) during plenary connected Thursday successful Makurdi.
Akya said that 7 children were abducted successful Makurdi connected 1st September.
He listed the children to see Kananfe Jika, a four-year-old child; Shimen Tyonenge, 5 years old; and Kakuman Tyonenge, 7 years old, each of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Apir.
He said that the transgression acts had devastating effects connected the physical, intelligence and affectional well-being of children and undermined the information and societal cloth of the state.
Akya further said that kid trafficking was a sedate usurpation of quality rights.
According to him, Nigeria is simply a signatory to respective planetary and determination conventions against kid trafficking, including the United Nations Convention connected the Rights of the Child and the African Charter connected the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
The legislator stated that the Child Rights Act 2003 criminalised the trafficking and abduction of children.
He, however, said that contempt the beingness of existing laws and information agencies, the concern persists unabated.
The question was seconded by Mr. Terna Shimawua (APC/Kyan), who stated that the question was timely and further encouraged parents to beryllium vigilant.
Ruling, Speaker Mr Alfred Emberga called connected the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, the Ministry of Justice and Public Order arsenic good arsenic different applicable agencies to forestall kid trafficking and enactment victims and their families.
Emberga further called connected the Nigerian Immigration Service, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking successful Persons (NAPTIP) to fortify their beingness and operations, particularly astatine borderline communities and transit points.
He mandated the House Committee connected Local Government, Security and Chieftaincy Affairs to interact with the heads of information agencies operating wrong the state.
He urged the authorities government, successful collaboration with faith-based organisations, accepted rulers and civilian nine organisations, to embark connected a monolithic nationalist sensitisation run connected kid extortion and the dangers of trafficking.
He charged the Clerk, Dr Bem Mela, to code the resolutions of the question to the applicable agencies for contiguous action.
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