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Simon Kun Puoc, while addressing the public at Malakal stadium said his government will work hard to contain street children and develop them into future generation of the country.
He said his office will form a committee headed by the deputy governor to start the procedures of constructing a camp in an area to be allocated between Maban and Melut counties.
Kun announced to the parents to make sure that when preparations are over any loitering child in the street will be arrested and taken to the camp where they will be trained and transformed into better life.
Some crimes are blamed on street children that have named themselves as ‘niggers’ in town centres across the country.
However, some vulnerable street children are also victims of many untold crimes against them and bad life conditions.
A 10-year old, Ngorie who is now two years in the street life said, “We are sometimes targeted innocently by people in the market. We are beaten and if we are sick nobody takes care of us. We move from place to place to try our luck during each day to find something to eat. That is how we live this street life.”
“We sleep at shops verandas in markets or anywhere but yet we are suffering from cold weather of this time and dogs disturbances. At night we fear everybody and everybody fears us. People see with many different understandings,” he said.
The issue of street children in South Sudan has become a national matter with many people saying that most of the street children belong to the former martyrs of South Sudan who fought the war of liberation of the country blaming the leaders of forgetting to care of the families of their dead comrades.
Mama Aliza Nyawal, in the state office of widows and orphans said widows and orphans whose husbands and fathers lost their lives during the struggle are living in bad life situations forgotten and unattended by the government and the former colleagues who fought alongside with their former bread winners.
“Our husbands have liberated this nation. They have paid their dear lives to make South Sudanese free and enjoy their resources and everything,” she noted.
The UN five top Child Rights experts on Wednesday called on governments and international community to make child protection from violence a priority in the post-2015 development agenda and support commitments with proper funding.
In a statement issued on Wednesday marking Universal Children’s Day, the experts said, every day millions of children are affected by conflicts; suffer from violence, neglect, abuse and exploitation at home, in schools, institutions, community and work places.
The UN five top Child Rights experts said these situations are not inevitable and can be effectively prevented.
They demanded that perpetrators of physical and emotional violence, child sexual abuse and exploitation and the recruitment of children in armed conflict be brought to justice.
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