Minimum Age For House Helps, Maids And Domestic Workers In Nigeria

Daily Law Tips (Tip 446) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM.
ACIArb(UK)

MINIMUM AGE FOR HOUSE HELPS, MAIDS AND DOMESTIC WORKERS IN
NIGERIA.

There is time for everything under heaven. Nigerians and
Nigerian laws frown at child labour and abuse. Often, families
engage children as house helps, maids and workers under the
disguise that such children will be sent to school and or paid.
Such practise/arrangement is now a criminal offence in Nigeria.

It is a criminal offence in all parts of Nigeria, to employ,
recruit, transport, harbour, receive or hire any human being in
Nigeria that is less than 12 years old as a domestic worker. It
doesn’t matter if such is done to assist such child with school,
care or any survival needs. This offence is punishable with
imprisonment for not less than 6 months but not more than 7
years.

Apart from Nigerian Police, the National Agency for the
Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) can entertain such
cases. Report such cases to them and always consult your
lawyer.

My authority is sections 23(1) (a) and 82 of the Trafficking in
Persons (Prohibition) Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015.

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