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UNDERAGE OFFENDERS SHOULD NOT BE INCARCERATED BEYOND 48 HOURS- SENATE

Nassnews recalls that Section 1 of the Child’s Right Act provides that: ‘In every action concerning a child, whether undertaken by an individual, public or private body, institutions or services, court of law, or administrative or legislative authority, the best interest of the child shall be the primary consideration’.
Senator Victor C. Umeh Anambra Central, raised the motion against illegal confinement of underage offenders and infants in the same prison with adult prisoners. In the content of pages 13 and 15 of the Nation newspaper Saturday.

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Adeboye Omoboye

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