The New Juaben South Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Isaac Appau-Gyesi, has called on parents to reduce the time they spent chasing wealth and focus on the wellbeing of their wards to help reduce the number of children on streets.
He questioned the benefits, if parents acquired all the wealth in the world at the neglect of their children who ended up on the streets as drug addicts and criminals.
Mr Appau-Gyasi was speaking at a stakeholder’s consultative forum on child justice at Koforidua.
The forum was organized by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), a civil society organization with support from the European Union.
It was to identify the gaps between practice and policy and come out with suggestions and proposals to help improve the rights of children within the justice delivery system of the country.
Mr Appau -Gyesi assured that the New Juaben South Municipal Assembly (NJSMA) under his leadership would show more interest in the development of children.
He said the NJSMA was considering the rehabilitation of one of the abandoned government bungalows in the Municipality to use as a shelter for street children.
It would also take measures to get the children off the streets of the Municipality, Mr appau-Gyesi added.
Mr Clarke Noyoru, the Project Coordinator, said children who broke the law should not be seen as criminals and treated as such, but should be seen as children who were in conflict with the law.
He called for the provision of human and financial resources to public institutions engaged in the delivery of child justice.
Mr Noyoru explained that in many instances, public institutions mandated to help implemented justice for children were unable to deliver because they lacked the resources to perform.
He called for the engagement of children in discussions which affected them.
Source: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/parents-urged-to-be-more-concern-about-their-wards-137053
