GENERAL
Our Goal Of Closing Witch Camps Is Impossible, Gender Minister.
The Gender Minister says it won’t be a simple assignment for her segment to shut down the different witch camps in the northern aspect of the nation.
This, as per Mrs Cynthia Morrison, is on the grounds that the camps fill in as a place of refuge for the individuals, particularly ladies who have been blamed for black magic.
“At the point when we were moving, we were feeling that we will shut down the witch camp since that is the main arrangement we had moving from Accra.
The Gender Minister, who was proceeding at the week by week ‘Meet the Press’ meeting held at the Ministry of Information, said the disclosure made it essential for the administration to investigate its choice and in addition to other things consider redesigning the camps for the people in question.
“Presently, the main arrangement we have is a law and we have let them know even before descending that we will sanction a law that will keep individuals from lynching anyone.
“In any case, the individuals themselves once they are marked witches, some of them intentionally race to the haven since they realize that when they remain there, around evening time, the youngsters will come after them.
“Thus we went to pretty much every camp in the north and the main end we have come to after creation the law is the manner by which to secure these blameless ones since a ton of them have wouldn’t return home as a result of dread.
“So now what we are taking a gander at is giving these brilliant old ladies a place of refuge and what we will do is to redesign where they are.”
Mrs Morrison additionally uncovered that the Gender Ministry was likewise setting up measures to guarantee that the old individuals remaining in the camps who were not enlisted on the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty program are enrolled inside the most limited conceivable time
