A draft law to domesticate Child Rights Act in Katsina recommends death sentence or life imprisonment for sexual abusers of children.
Patents who subject children to begging or hawking, depriving them of school, will also pay up to N20,000 in fine or get prison time not less than one month.
For almajiris, the proposed law permits children to be separated from their parents but only on grounds that the parent or guardian shall provide care, food, clothing and other necessities for the child.
The technical committee working on the draft law has presented it before the state commissioner for women affairs for onward transmission to the governor.
Secretary of the committee Fatima Jibo said it took a lot of commitment and hard work from various stakeholders to arrived at the draft law.
According to her, government should provide all necessary support to the child protection unit of the state police command for efficient and effective implementation of the law.
Responding, the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Dr. Badiyya Hassan Mashi, assured that the drafted bill will be handed over to the Governor for the next line of action. (Daily Trust. Photo: Wikipedia)
That is un-Islamic. It is unfortunate that a state like Katsina does not know what the Shari’a says. You cannot punish an illiterate or one who chose to disobey Muhammad Rasulullah. Katsina state has a deficit of about 6,000 teachers for mathematics, english and others. How many teachers in Islamic education are in Katsina state? How many of them have the basic qualifications required for teaching Islamic education?
Instead of inviting more wreath and displeasure of Allah, it is better to throw away that and find away for teaching Islam. There is not a single Islamic teacher for example with Musnad Imam Ahmad. There is not a single scholar with a book on Usul hadith, fiqh a classical introductory commentary on the Qur’an. The translated english books taught in IRK are archaic and not up to the standard of a kindergarten.