The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, has disclosed that government operations aimed at removing foreign children from the streets have been temporarily suspended due to financial constraints.
Addressing Parliament on Wednesday, June 24, the Minister said although the exercise has been put on hold, previous interventions have helped reduce the number of children living and working on the streets.
According to her, the measures implemented by government have been effective in preventing a worsening of the situation.
“To a large extent, I would say that the measures are working, because without these interventions, you realise that our streets will be flooded, and the dangers that will pose to even the children themselves is something that governments will not be able to bear,” she told the House.
Mrs Lartey noted that while the country has not yet achieved the desired outcome of completely eliminating the problem, the interventions undertaken so far have produced positive results.
“You might say that we are not there yet, we don’t have the perfect situation we desire yet, but I can tell you on authority that the measures are working,” she stated.
The Minister, however, acknowledged that inadequate funding has affected the continuity of the operations and limited the frequency with which they can be carried out.
“Sometimes you have resource constraints in doing it as often as you would want to do, to sustain the efforts, but to a large extent, the efforts are indeed working,” she said.
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