18 April 2008
Uige — Angola's Social Welfare minister, Joao Baptista Kussumua, on Thursday here called on the population to denounce possible cases of children trafficking in this region, so that their perpetrators be taken to justice, ANGOP has learnt.
The government official who was speaking at the opening of the meeting on the "11 Commitments on Children" expressed his concern about this situation.
Thus, he defended the need for the creation of juridical tools to punish people that are involved in children trafficking, so as to stop this ill that tends to increase in the Angolan society.
According to Joao Baptista Kussumua, it is necessary that the whole society be mobilised to deal with the problem, denouncing all initiatives that aim at increasing it.
On the other hand, he defended the need for the implementation of a project to increase the number of classrooms, meant to accommodate a great number of children.
The meeting was attended by members of the local government, representatives of churches, political parties, national and foreign non-governmental organisations.
In Uige Province, minister Joao Baptista Kussumua met the governor Antonio Bento Cangulo, visited the Kiesse children shelter home, as well as a construction project at Kituma village.
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