Road users have been urged to stop providing money to child beggars by Lariba Zuweira Abudu, the minister of gender, children, and social protection.
This, in her opinion, will go a long way toward discouraging young kids from returning to the streets, often in hazardous and difficult circumstances.
In order to update the public on the status and implementations of projects, programs, and policies under the gender ministry, the minister made this request during a Minister’s Press Briefing at the Ministry of Information office on Sunday, June 4, 2023.
The minister continued by saying that if multiple grownups avoid these little beggars on the streets, they won’t want to go back since other drivers won’t be accommodating.
“If you don’t give them today and I don’t give them tomorrow, next week they will be forced to leave the streets and move away,” the minister said.
The minister noted that although the government deported 400 international child beggars, they continue to return in large numbers despite the efforts taken to decrease the number of children begging on the streets. Therefore, the only option is to cease paying them.
“We have done a lot to take them from the streets, but somehow they find themselves back, we even repatriated 400 of them and engaged the embassies here, but they find ways to come back, so we have to stop giving money to minors on the streets because as adults I don’t see why we should be giving monies to six-year-olds on the streets,” Lariba said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
