Where is the ministry responsible for Gender, Children and Social Protection?

It beats one’s imagination why parents would leave their children as young as these ones to travel from other parts of Ghana to the nation’s capital, Accra only to be wandering about and sleeping in the open at the

It would be recalled that Pulse.com.gh reported of some children of school going age maneuvering among vehicles and begging for alms around East Legon- American house, who claimed to have come all the way from Bawjiase, Kasoa, Swedru and others.

One would have thought that a responsible state with an effective social welfare system would have reached for these children and either reunite them with their families or keep them in custody.

However, for about a month or more after that report, the same children are still loitering and begging in the streets.

From their appearance and the attires they wear, one would require no microscope to come to a conclusion that they have not bathed ever since they stepped in Accra.

The places they sleep at and the kind of things that they cover themselves with to protect them against mosquito bites are diseases in themselves.

When asked why they are not in school, the little children who mentioned their names as Joshua Sarfo, Emmanuel Amankwah, Kobby Benjamin and others, said their parents did not enroll them in school.

Admittedly, their parents might not be responsible for, which reason they were able to find their way in the capital, but the state must not join in the irresponsibility. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection must step in to clear these children and others from the streets, reunite them with their various families and ensure they are in school.

We cannot continue tickling ourselves and laughing that we are fighting crime when we are actually nurturing potential criminals through negligence.

The rights to education and shelter of these children are seriously being denied them while the state and those in relevant positions deliberately remain quiet.

Where is the ministry responsible for Gender, Children and Social Protection?

It beats one’s imagination why parents would leave their children as young as these ones to travel from other parts of Ghana to the nation’s capital, Accra only to be wandering about and sleeping in the open at the

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