The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Mamle Morrison, says the Ministry has moved over 4,809 children from the streets of Accra.
According to her, twenty one of them who are nationals of Niger have been repatriated to their home country as of 2018.
The Minister said at the midnight of December 23, 2018, she led a team to rescue those children on the streets around the Marina Mall and Opeibea areas all in Airport City who were sent to a social welfare shelter at Madina.
Responding to a Parliamentary question asked by MP for Afigya Sekyere East, Mavis Nkansah-Boadu, the sector Minister, Cynthia Mamle Morrison stressed, “the unfortunate challenge is that some of these children continue to reappear on our streets,” adding that, “together with the Office of National Security, we are engaging with more stakeholders to develop and implement a more sustainable strategy to permanently address the issue.”
Madama Morrison suggested that with adequate funding, the Ministry will ensure that every citizen has improved access to quality social services and livelihood activities to reflect both international and national obligations such as the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), most importantly Goals 1, 2 and 5.
Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah.
