FIFTY FOUR Pregnant Girls Uncovered In Lagos Public Schools
A current statistics launched by the Office of Youth as well as Social Development, an arm of the Lagos State Ministry of Youth, Sports as well as Social Development has discovered that FIFTY FOUR girls were pregnant as well as TWO HUNDRED students were on drugs in Lagos public secondary schools.
This harmful breakthrough revealed that FIFTY FOUR pregnant girls were counselled by the school social services in the last 1 year out of the 378 schools went to.
Out of the FIFTY FOUR pregnant girl students counselled, EIGHTEEN of them who were with critically depressed were brought under
supervision of the social welfare service.
The statement also exposed that 154 instances of sexual assault were discovered as well as the victims were counselled, while TWENTY-SEVEN of such afflicted students were placed under supervision. 91 victims of physical abuse were counselled, along with TWENTY-SEVEN placed under supervision.
Nigeriannewspaperstoday.net obtained that about 102 students who absconded were also counselled by the department with FIFTY of such students placed under supervision.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth as well as Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru stated the school social work section of his ministry had been going round schools to check overdue acts of pupils in schools, which are harmful to learning among students of primary as well as secondary schools in the State.
‘Their work is that of discovering, managing as well as adjusting bad behaviour between students as a result of negative influence from peer group, modifying the attitudinal attitudes of delinquent students in schools as well as offering counselling services to students from dysfunctional families.
‘The School Social Employees have been working in cooperation with the School Guidance as well as Counsellors to counsel pupils and also reform those in require of correction. Some of these instances were referred to Family Courts as well as the affected pupils were placed on supervision to allow them settle down both at home as well as in school.
‘In the last one year, 378 schools were visited and also a total of 2,601 students were counselled separately as well as in groups, while 567 students were placed on supervision,’ he revealed.
Dr Badru uncovered that an investigation into the claimed sexual harassment of a girl-child by her guardian, a Naval Officer was also carried out, noticing that she was temporarily sheltered at the Special Correctional Centre for Girls, Idi-Araba till when she was released as well as got re-united with her biological parents in Bayelsa State.
News Source : NNT
