Akwa Ibom: Stakeholders raise concern over increase in number of street children

Stakeholders successful Akwa Ibom State person expressed interest implicit the rising incidence of susceptible children connected the streets and called for alternate household based attraction and support.

Speaking during a league organised by Street Mentors Network successful concern with Theolight Global Foundation, held successful Uyo connected Saturday, the stakeholders insisted that communities person a greater relation successful addressing the challenges faced by these susceptible children successful the state. The league was themed, ‘Mobilizing Families for Alternative Care of Vulnerable Children’.

In her code titles, ‘Every Child Deserves A Safe Family: The Law, Our Responsibility and the Way Forward’, the keynote speaker, Justice Theresa Obot, harped connected the request for innovative solutions to the situation done harmless and steadfast environments.

Justice Obo, who is presently serving arsenic a household tribunal justice astatine Etinan Division, said each kid deserves not conscionable attraction and protection, but the accidental to turn successful a safe, loving and supportive family. She traced the basal origin of kid maltreatment to issues of breached homes, poorness and mediocre parenting.

Speaking connected a fig of specified cases she has handled, the justice said, “Sometimes, children are amended disconnected astatine alternate homes than successful their earthy habitats,...