Yesterday, i watched from the gallery as 21 out of the 26 legislators at thhe osun state house of assembly looked through the clean copy of the child rights bill for osun state.

after which a motion for the third reading was moved and seconded, and the bill passed into law, currently awaiting the Governor's assent.

The journey till yesterday has been challenging and exciting. The Nigerian National assembly passed the child right bill into an act in 2003. Since then, all the states in Nigeria were mandated to adopt the bill to suit the needs of their people.

The bill has been at the osun state house of assembly since 2005. It was not passed by the last house of assembly.

since the inception of this current house of assembly, they debated the bill for 6 straight weeks until it was finally passed yesterday.

i am glad to have watched the process and in my opinion, i think children and young people in osun state will be the better for it.