The Street Children Parliament has warned that the continued neglect of the country’s over 20 million out-of-school children would make them soft targets for criminals to recruit as child soldiers, bandits and criminals that will constitute threat to society.
The Speaker of the parliament, Saifulai Karim Usman, issued the warning Wednesday in Abuja, at the commemoration of International Day for Street Children organised by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and Young Ambassadors Against Drug Abuse Initiative (YADDA).
