The Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, says there is no hiding place for child traffickers in Anambra State.
The Commissioner, said this while receiving in audience the State Director, National Orientation Agency, NOA, Sir Joseph Uchendu and his Management
team who paid her an advocacy visit in her office at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women Development Center, Awka.
Mrs Obinabo who noted that undiscovered child breeding centers still exist in the State maintained that the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare under her
watch is ever ready to work with Agencies with similar mandates to rid the State of such obnoxious practices against women and children.
Commissioner Obinabo, who explained that her office has a lot of cases now, also spoke on the intention of the ministry to delegate some works to Agencies and Associations which have what it takes to work with the Ministry in the total fight against child abuse and other crimes and criminalities meted against widows in the State.
She noted that the Ministry is ready to scale up sensitization and re-orientation of the people with a view to making them to understand the consequences of engaging in the evil acts and harmful cultural activities against individuals in the State.
Speaking earlier, the NOA State Director, Sir Joseph, assured the Commissioner that the Agency is willing to collaborate with the Ministry in its programme implementation geared towards
achievement of a competitive and progressive social order as envisioned by Professor Charles Soludo, as one of the five pillars for turning Anambra state into a secure and prosperous homeland and megacity.
He commended the Commissioner for her past track records in the State, especially in the media and congratulated her for her appointment as a Commissioner of Women and Social Welfare in the State, adding that NOA is ready to work with the Ministry in the areas of Mobilization and Sensitization of the people to buy into the development programmes of Governor Soludo in the State.
The NOA boss who spoke on the mandate of NOA in the course of the event with particular reference to value orientation and promotion of the principles of social justice, assured that NOA would keep on telling the people what they needed to know for their holistic development and self-realization.
Sir Joseph commended Governor Soludo’s development agenda for Ndi-Anambra which, he said were synonymous with what NOA preaches in the State.
Also speaking, the Deputy Director, Special Duties, NOA, Awka, Mrs, Ifeoma Chijioke commended the Commissioner’s zeal in the total fight geared towards all round liberation of Anambra State women from obnoxious practices, especially the widows and the under privileged young girls in the State.
She suggested that a town hall meeting should be organized by the two sister organizations for the Traditional Rulers in the State with a view to educating them more on all they needed to know about the protection of a girl child rights, harmful practices against widows, child trafficking and sexual abuse among others as well as penalties for such practices.
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