No fewer than 152 children have been rescued from traffickers by the Oyo State Government, the state Commissioner for Women Affairs, Community Development, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs. Atinuke Osunkoya, has said on Tuesday.
She said the victims have been rehabilitated and provided with medical services.
The commissioner who disclosed this during a ministerial briefing to highlight the activities of the Ministry and to commemorate the 2018 International Women’s Day in Ibadan said 6,000 children had benefitted from the "Educate a Rural Child Programme" in the state.
According to her, 276 were reformed under probational services through their schools while 561 children were trained in different vocations and empowered with support from SACA.
She noted that 65 infected and affected by HIV/AIDS were provided educational and nutritional support and 3460 orphans and vulnerable children in orphanages in the state were provided with educational and welfare support.
She assured that adequate security and welfare measures are being put in place to protect the vulnerable segment of the society, saying that about 10,514 children have been cared for under its child welfare programme.
The Commissioner said that the government has not relented in its efforts with People With Disability (PWD), stating that 350 PWDs were provided with Mobility Aids such as wheel Chairs, White canes and crutches, 31 with artificial limbs produced at subsidized rates for the amputees at the Rehabilitation Centre for the Disabled, Moniya and 434 PWDs were empowered with cash and equipment such as computers, sewing machines, barbing and hair dressing equipment.
Osunkoya stressed that 201 children have been placed on local adoption with substitute parents and 12 on international adoption in Netherlands, stating that 714 of cases have resolved through Juvenile Welfare Services out of which 274 were cautioned and released to their parents after reformation, 225 were released on recognition and Ministry’s instruction, 90 released for proper reintegration with their families and 125 committed to Juvenile Correctional Institutional for supervision and reformation.
The commissioner said that 815 distress families were reconciled, 512 children in the custody of mothers were maintained by their fathers and 519 children/juvenile were psychologically reformed, counseled and reintegrated into their family through the family welfare services of the state government.
She said that 155 people have benefited from the poverty alleviation of the Abiola Ajimobi led government, adding that another set of 126,961 women across the 33 Local Government Areas (LGAs) have benefited from the government’s women empowerment programme.
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