SCI Partner with Katsina to Inaugurate Committee on Ending Child Marriage

Francis Sardaina in Katsina

The Save the Children International (SCI) in collaboration with the Katsina State Ministry of Women Affairs has inaugurated an implementation committee on ending child marriage to tackle the prevailing cases of child-marriage in the state.

The 36-member committee headed by the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Rabia Mohammed, is expected to strengthen mechanisms and promote relevant policies to ensure better life for the girl-child in the state.

Speaking during the inauguration of the committee, Mohammed expressed government’s readiness to avert child marriage in the state.

The commissioner, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Abdulhamid Garba, said the government was taking proactive measures in stemming barriers that will hinder the development of girl-child and other children.

She admonished members of the committee to promote relevant policies backed by adequate resources and proper programming as well as to increase the girls’ access to education.

According to her, “Members of the committee are to also build a statewide capacity for research and knowledge on best practices and proper programming.”

She affirmed that the state government was committed to ensuring a better life for the girl-child in the state to serve as model conscience of the society in enhancing high level capacity building for children.

In her closing remarks, the state Community Engagement and Advocacy Coordinator of SCI, Murjanatu Kabir, urged the committee to promote relevant policies that would better the lives of girls and other children in the state.

While admitting that ending child marriage in Katsina State is an arduous task, Kabir said the passage of the Child Protection Law and other policies put in place by SCI would ward off the scenario in the state.

The SCI community engagement and advocacy coordinator expressed the organization’s determination to work assiduously with the committee to end the age-long predicament in the state.