An aide to the president, Lauretta Onochie kicked against the treatment meted out to a kid in a video that has since gone viral.
The video shows the kid saying “mummy calm down” while his mother was trying to discipline him.
According to Lauretta Onochie, “The calm down video, is a clear case of child abuse. That was not discipline.
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“Many Nigerian adults today, are suffering from the effects of similar abuse when they were children.
“In the UK, the child would be in care, his mother charged
“I was distressed by the calm down video. I can’t imagine the trauma that child and other children who watched it, went through.
“We must make laws that protect children in our nation.
“There are better and more effective and humane ways of effecting behavioural changes in children”
I was distressed by the calm down video. I can't imagine the trauma that child and other children who watched it, went through.
We must make laws that protect children in our nation
There are better and more effective and humane ways of effecting behavioural changes in children
— Lauretta Onochie (@Laurestar) August 3, 2020
