The Deputy Minister for Gender, Women and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu, has cautioned the public against alms giving to child beggars.
According to her, the Ministry has information that a number of child beggars loitering the street are part of a trafficking syndicate.
The children are reported to have been trafficked from the Sahelian region by an unnamed woman who drives the children to various streets in Accra to beg for alms every morning, picking them at night to take monies generated by the children.
The Deputy Minister disclosed this during a Parliamentary Roundtable Discussion on Human Trafficking in Ghana, by the Mpraeso MP, Davis Opoku in collaboration with the International Justice Mission.
The Deputy Minister for Gender, Women and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu, has cautioned the public against alms giving to child beggars.
According to her, the Ministry has information that a number of child beggars loitering the street are part of a trafficking syndicate.
The children are reported to have been trafficked from the Sahelian region by an unnamed woman who drives the children to various streets in Accra to beg for alms every morning, picking them at night to take monies generated by the children.
The Deputy Minister disclosed this during a Parliamentary Roundtable Discussion on Human Trafficking in Ghana, by the Mpraeso MP, Davis Opoku in collaboration with the International Justice Mission.
