The lack of resources and homes for the upkeep of homeless and vulnerable children who have been picked from the streets is a major hurdle undermining the capacity of the various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in Accra to rid the capital of child beggars.
Currently, the various offices of the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) at the assemblies lack vehicles to enable officials to move round to pick child beggars from the streets.
Besides, there is currently only one state-operated home for homeless children at Madina Social Welfare, but the facility is not big enough to accommodate many street children.
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A group of aggrieved indigenes of the La traditional area in the Greater Accra region have, today, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 invoked 99 deities to punish any individual who encroaches or puts up any structure on a yet-to-be-delineated tract of land at Tse-Addo in the La Dade Kotopon municipality.
According to the aggrieved youth, the La Stool/Traditional Council have held negotiations with the government, represented by the former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, over La lands being annexed and encroached by the military.
It was pronounced at the end of the negotiations in November last year in the presence of the military and senior officials of the Lands Commission, who were parties to the negotiations from the onset that parts of the lands should be released to the La Stool and that the parts required by the military should be acquired through due process.
La Dadekotopon NPP want former MP Vincent Sowah Odotei sacked
JAN 29, 2021
The La Dade Kotopon constituency Senior Party members, Coordinators and Delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have petitioned the party to expell the former Member of Parliament for the constituency Vincent Sowah Odotei popularly known as Obama.
According to them, the former MP engaged in ways to derail the fortunes of the party in the constituency.
They alleged that the former MP is orchestrating negative propaganda, tactics and schemes.ostensibly to derail the NPP s efforts of being an attractive political party to belong to in Dade Kotopon .
In a 15 point petitioned read by Emmanuel Kuru on behalf of the group, the group alleged that the former MP and his supporters campaigned for the then parliamentary candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress and even paid voters to vote for the NDC candidate.