It is no longer going to be business as usual for orphanage home operators who are not fully licensed by government in the state.
This is sequel to the the plans of Rivers State Government to profile all orphanage homes and shut down facilities that are not properly liscensed.
The Rivers State Commissioner of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Mrs Inime Aguma who dropped the hint while playing host to NAWOJ executive members in her residence said the reason is to curb child trafficking while reducing the rate at which people house teenage mothers to deliver in their facilities.
She also said that Rivers State Government is building a safe home at Borokiri which would accommodate women in distress, rape victims and children who are kept away from places where they were abused.
She explained that the safe home complex which will have in it a Centre for learning to give the inmates a form of education and a family customary and High courts to ensure that inmates are not taken to the regular court premises will be commissioned at the end of May.
Mrs Aguma said the Ministry is coming up with an agenda for the violence against Prohibition law stressing that the law will contain sex offenders register which will be launched soon and urged NAWOJ to give it an amplified voice.
According to her, the Ministry was setup to provide welfare for people that are indigent, incapacitated in one way or the other and children in conflict with the law and in need of protection adding that the Ministry is faced with the challenge of clearing lunatics off the streets as they return back weeks after they are removed and described the menace as ‘organized trade’.
Earlier, Chairperson of NAWOJ, Rivers State, Mrs Susan Serekana- Nwikhana said the association seeks to partner the Ministry in it’s Programmes and give voice to issues bothering on Women and girls.
