A chairmanship aspirant for Ughelli North Local Government Council, Delta State, Chief Scott Udu, has felicitated with all children in Delta State and Nigeria at large on this year’s Children’s Day celebration.
Udu in his message to children called on parents to pay more attention to their children.
According to him, “Children’s Day celebration in Nigeria is celebrated on 27th May, annually, and children are said to be gifts from God, it does not matter the sex and physical state or condition of the child as they are the future of our generations.
“So, attention must be paid to their spiritual, physical, emotional, educational and social wellbeing. In the light of this, parents must create time to develop their children and stop child discrimination in the home, Child abuse and modern child slavery”.
He admonished parents to learn to listen to the needs of their children and never relent to caution them against bad characters, stressing that children should be trained in the right direction in order for them to grow up and be a blessing to the society.
Amb. Udu made a passionate call to the government to develop and invest massively on institutions that will cater for the physical challenge children in the society, while complimenting Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa for his giant strides towards upgrading primary and secondary school in the State.
Udu lauded Governor Okowa for granting free education to all primary and secondary school pupils/students within the State and urged parents to make use of this opportunity.
