By Jude Michael
The wife of Anambra State Governor, Mrs Nonye Soludo, says the state government is working assiduously to come up with more laws to ensure adequate protection of children in the state.
Mrs Soludo disclosed this while speaking with the press last Sunday when she paid a visit to the children of Model Community Children’s Home, Awka.
The Anambra First Lady, who said she was at the orphanage home to celebrate the 2023 Children’s Day with the children in order to give them a sense of belonging and motherly love, noted with satisfaction that Soludo’s administration had done enough in taking child beggars out of the streets and back to school.
The governor’s wife expressed worry over the increasing rate of child battering in society and advised mothers to stop giving out their children to other persons for whatsoever reason. She described the development as saddening.
‘Government is really really worried about the situation. We are coming up with laws to protect the children,’ Mrs Soludo said.
‘I don’t know why a mother can send her child of seven, eight years of age to go and take care of an adult.
‘So we are begging mothers to please stop this and take care of their children’, Mr Soludo urged.
Trinitas findings indicate that a total of 69 inmates are in the Children’s Home, with the Home relying on government subvention and the magnanimity of good spirited individuals to survive.
The children who looked healthy and happy, are taken school on school days by the caregivers at the Home.
Highlight of the visit of the governor’s wife was the cooking of food for the children by the governor’s wife right inside the premises, after which all the children were served.
