The Malawi Government has hit back at critics of its decision to arrest parents of street kids in the country.
The exercise was expected to start next month but did not go well with some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) who suggested that government should stop the process.
The organizations were lobbying that government should provide a tangible solution to the matter rather than arresting the beggars since poverty forces them to stay in the streets.
However, principal secretary in the ministry of gender, children and social welfare Mary Shawa said government will not reverse its decision since it is following the Child Care Protection and Justice Act.
“The organizations who are against this process must read the Child Care Protection and Justice Act which stipulates that parents who had failed to take care of their children must face the law,” said Shawa.
According to the ministry, government previously targeted the children but it later realised that parents send their children to beg in the streets.
And that is why the ministry resolved to start removing street kids and arresting parents of such kids as well as those who give money to beggars.
She urged the organisations to work together with government by forming organisation where street kids will find help.
According to government findings, Out of 4,400 street kids in the country, only 400 kids do not have guardians while the others choose to go beg on the streets.
Even here Capetown there r a lonts of streets kids .nde bwanji kunaku sakuamanga .and choti muziwe choti anawa sanafune kutti azakhale chocho ayi .koma kusowa zithu bwanji osawanthandiza kuwapangila chinachake kusiyana ndikuwmanga .inu mwawona kuti kuthesa Mavuto ndikuwamanga basi?
Dats stupid goverment palibe dziko lomwe kulibe wopemphetsa kosowa chochita fotseik
Ndipo ana amene aja amakhala woopsa mbava zoipisisa amangidwe basi
Zoona anjateni zimenezo zimakhala zigandanga zoopsa mu town
Ndale pachilichonse, they mst go hom
CSOs, any suggestions and solutions?
ambiri omwe mukuti amangidwe ndi osabereka (agojo). umphawi sungaletse munthu kubbereka! its nature
Absolutely please this naughty kids collect them please der pulling our money frm our pockets
Vuto la ananso opemphawa sakhutisidwa. Ngakhale mutawapasa zambiri ndalama mawa muwapezanso m’mastreet momwemo
Nobody wants 2b begga Bt its poverty make someone 2b
Rubbish,dnt u knw tht lyf iz tough 4 these kidz,first help them then u cn remove them out of the street
Why not arrest corrupt police and migration officers?
Act faster f
Kumabeleka ana ndikukana kumuthandiza achitechan. Mabwana,ma mp and enanu siyani kupangila patchile plz.
Koma Joseph window walasa waboola nduna zinazi di zumafanana ndianawa mmalo moti aziwathandiza koma ai ndithu kaliyati enawa ndi ana akoso koma amai wina fusanani kunyumbako
policy of id amin slowly slowly u r becoming adictator those r poor people just make job opportunities than arresting their parents.Shame on you
Mr Ngwenya u hate NGOs using porchy cars,hw does the so called gvt(s) use our tax?Buying luxuries for them.Why do they fail to find a good shelter for them?Or the prisons are they for the poor only?
Thandizani makolo akhale mchakudya chifukwa anawo akuthawa mavuto mmakomomu komanso kodi mahule ndi anawa owopsa kwambiri mndani?
Osawa tulusanso amwano
hahaha poor goverment …y arresting them…if u want thm out of th street build shelters n take thm there…if u arrest th parent these kids will still be there.
Ok
Anthu ambiri amene mukuti amangeninu ndi amene mukumapereka mimba mmiseumu kwa azimai ogona panja .
Mukufuna anawo adzimangidwa chifukwa ana ena wo mukufanana nawo nkhope ndiye akukuchititsani manyazi .
Ndaona choncho..
Dziko la Malawi lalemela chimtundu chiani kuti mukadane ndi munthu opemphetsa ?
Government should go ahead with the decision to arrest street kids and their parents ,these CSOs & NGOs have failed Malawi they receive millions of dollars,drive in pochy cars, but failing to feed few street kids on our roads. What they are fearing is cut of aid not welfare of the kids. It doesn’t need a 4by 4 double cabin to pick a street kid in city centre, town hall. Hon Kaliati is right Bravo Mai Athu. Osawanyengerera
use the resources for arresting to take care of the vulnerable children. csos are not a replacement of government. government should not drive in posh fuel guzzlers while children are languishing on our streets
aaaa! tachulukana kwambiri or mutamangowapha kumene sungalakwitse kom mudziwe kut mudzakayankha mulandu wa kupha ku mwamba.
” But some of these children are being sent to the streets with the same parents so that once they bring their lucky packages later in day, then the family gets a beat sorted for an overnight. So arresting such people is not gona squeeze down the problem as you might take a look, but will let the problem rise the ladders bkos if more parents of the street kids gets arrested it means more street kids remains without parents/guardians as a result they still all will flock to the streets ” kukasuntha vuto wawa “in their daily lives since they are also parenting themselves “
Anjateni amenewo iya, muyambe ndi awo akuti ayi. These street kids when they grow zimadzakhala zigadanga zoopsa nkumatiberanso, adzipita kumudzi kwao basi, azigogo awo akusowa owayatsira chingambwe
everything start from street mr, if you want clean the city just give them good plans not way you are thinking
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What do you mean?
What do you mean Flora Gwalla
Mr government do u know y this child livng in street?
Mr government do u know y this child livng in street?
Mr government do u know y this child livng in street?
You hv already stated that our prison are conjested,where wil you put these innocents to save there crimes commited.But do you know that other kids do this on their own without parent knowledge?If you arest these parents wil it be the end of poverty mr government?
Nd then?