Anambra state government says it will no longer allow break down of law and other by people living in the state who have turned deaf ears on the Anambra state law prohibiting child labour and trafficking in the state.
The state Commissioner for Information Sir Paul Nwosu who state this in a release frowned at parents and guardians who use their wards to beg for alms even after Governor Chukwuma Soludo granted free education to school children both indigens and non-indigens.
According to the commissioner, it is so troubling seeing healthy children who ought to be in schools being used as beggars at the bus-stops, road intersections and along the streets.
He said that it was time all the unrepentantly incorrigible parents who release their children for this unhealthy practice are stopped in their tracks.
Sir Paul said that it is not in the DNA of healthy Anambra people to beg , least of all, children.
He added that there is absolutely no reason why these kids should not be in schools instead of milling under Aroma flyover and other city centres in seeming vagrancy, thereby frustrating Governor Soludo’s sustained effort to regenerate major cities and urban centres in the state.
The Commissioner explained that the parents or guardians syndicates who send such kids lurk in the corners, waiting for the proceeds coming from the children who had gone to beg for alms.
He warned that henceforth, a more coordinated action would be taken by relevant government agencies to get to the root of the matter so that an effective stop will be put to it.
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