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Parents
By Olayinka Owolewa
Ilorin, Sept. 15, 2016 (NAN) Mrs Elizabeth Adebanjo, the Controller of Male Borstal Home Rehabilitation Centre at Ganmo, Ilorin, has urged
parents and guardians to make necessary follow-ups to the home so as to monitor the improvements in their wards’ behaviours.
She made the call when a Non-Governmental Organisation called “Pious Women Organisation” visited the centre as part of its activities to mark
the Eid-el- Kabir celebration.
According to her, it is displeasing if parents and guardians abandon their young ones at the home and refuse to return and check their well-being.
Adebanjo thanked the organisation for the visit and commended their interest in the welfare of children under her supervision.
In her remarks, the Coordinator of the organisation, Dr Hamdat Yusuf, urged wealthy individuals, institutions and multi-national companies to assist orphanages and the less privileged members of the society.
Yusuf, who is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, advocated the establishment of a borstal home for females who indulged in criminal activities as they also needed rehabilitation like their male counterparts.
She assured the children of the home of better future if they were determined to change their ways for the better.
The senior lecturer described the centre as “a giant stride” toward remoulding the character of juvenile delinquents.
She stressed the need for them to shun life of criminality and get re-branded as good children.
The National Vice President of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Hajiya Biliqees Oladimeji, encouraged the inmates to have faith in God and be obedient to their parents and constituted authorities.
Oladimeji also urged them to be determined toward being good citizens who would make positive contributions to the development of the nation.
She urged government at all levels to give priority to the wellbeing of children so as to curb social ills, saying that social intervention programmes
would impact the deviants in the society. (NAN)
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(Edited by Shittu Obassa/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu)