Stakeholders in agric sector have expressed need to end child labour, especially among farmers in the country. The stakeholders, who stated this during a road walk and children engagement organised to mark the World Day Against Child Labour in Ondo, said it is imperative that the practice is eradicated among cocoa farmers in the state.
The Deputy Chief of Party, Lutheran World Relief (LWR) for the Traceability and Resilience in Agriculture and Cocoa Ecosystems of Nigeria (TRACE) and Child Labour Education and Resilience (CLEAR) projects, Olawale Awoyemi, who spoke with journalists during the exercise in Akure, said it has become essential to shun child labour in the country. Awoyemi said the programme aimed to create awareness and campaign towards ending child labour in the cocoa communities of Ondo State.
According to him, child labour has been an international concern because it damages, spoils and destroys the future of children in the society.
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