NIGERIAN CHILDREN ARE CRYING

See Nigerian children crying to government and their parents for the lack of proper care and love. I have a question to ask and that is the question that Nigerian children want an answer to, Children’s day is being celebrated on the 27^th of May of every year. Why is it only on may 27^th we remember and celebrate our children? Did children really being celebrated? Did they have a sense of belonging? Did our children really feel the joy that our members of the society have? It is here in Nigeria that I know that children always work for their living, treated like animal. Almost every child not those one who were born in Aso Rock and in all government houses in the country but I am talking about typical Nigerian children raised in the city, town and in the ghettoes are not enjoying what they should enjoy as a member of the society. There is abuse and lack of love. Some of these children always blame the Supreme Being (God) for placing them in Nigeria they wish they were born in developed nations like America, United Kingdom or European country. I don’t like to blame such children it is lack of love, care and lack of sense of belonging.

Infancy, period from birth to about 2 years of age. This first stage of life is an important time, characterized by physical and emotional growth and development. We are entitling to love, care, protection and all provision not abuse says Nigerian children.

When we are young, we grown up in the labour field where parents treated us as one of the slave bought, we are battered, beaten, punished and some times we are subjected to terror that we lost our sense of value for our real self-worth and our true identity was affected. We don’t enjoy our childhood, no time for rest, our parent engaged us all the time for hawking and other domestic work but for us no objection as we leave one work so also we are expected to jump into another. The most damaging experience of the Nigerian child is that after all these labour, no thank you or well done from the parents or the guidance instead what they receive is blame and beaten for every mistakes.

When Nigeria child commit any atrocity or offend the parent or any elderly person, see the beaten, they beat the child until there is no breath in him anymore and often they are starved of sleep, food, clothing etc for little mistakes that these elderly ones can even do more if they are in their position.

No proper education is given to the Nigerian children, no special attention and love. It is when we pretend to be sick or when we are really sick before we can get or gain the attention of our parents and guidance, Oh it is a sorry case!

Parents, children are heritage of God without price to take care of them, instead you left these children alone to feed, cloth and protect themselves, this is an abuse. Subjecting them to labour and hawking round the street is damaging to our self worth. It is only on Christmas day  parents remember they have a children they suppose to cloth and feed, it is only on Christmas day we are able to wear new shoes, new clothes says one of the children.

Why is it only once in a year we are entitling to all these goodies and privileges of life?

When I sat down with television, magazine to watch and read what other children in Europe and America enjoy from their parents and governments I always feel sorry for the state of children in this country and in Africa.

Hear the cry of the Nigerian child “Anytime  I pay visit to my friend’s house and I see how their parent relate and show them love, I regret being born of my parent”

Nigeria government needs to rise to this challenge and do something now concerning the plight of children. Presently there is no adequate provision for Nigerian child, see all motor pack and all our street children that suppose to be in school are found every second and everyday hawking instead of being in school please do something.

Child abuse means using or treating our children in a wrong way. One day just open your window if you are living in a widely congested area like Lagos state, within 5 minutes the next thing you see are these little children hawking, carrying tray of yam, cloth, gari etc. In every society where there is a tragic occurrence, children are always the major victim, children of 4 to 5 years dying of hunger, war and famine. Parents and government please do something on child abuse, child protection, child victimization they are the seed of the future we desire to build.

There is one ugly experience in the northern part of Nigeria where parent who should be the custodian of the destiny of their children gave them plate and telling them to go beg for food and money.

Celebrating our children should not be once in a year or twice a year. If this nation or parent neglected the children the future is being neglected and every labour of our lives will be in vain. Our dear parent and our dear government, watching the children like this is like sitting down watching your home collapsing. Parents and government let us build up our children, train them, give them all they deserve and a ready-made future will be delivered into your hands. Hear this, when a ball is throw or tossed against a wall, the direction it will bounce depends on how it was thrown, many parents live helpless today and they have children living fine and adequately equipped but because their children did not enjoy them when they are young.