Deal With Parents Who Leave Their Children To Roam During Lockdown

Deal with parents who leave their children to roam during the lockdown in Accra and Kumasi for the next two weeks. Over the past two weeks, Ghanaian children have been left to their faith by parents who are either irresponsible or do not understand the current pandemic and the risk it poses to roaming children and their families.

Children gathered at public places, in homes, playing football, and ampe and sweating in the midst of that. The least said about hugging and touching each other the better.  From Monday, This free-range child raring system must be shelved on Monday as we deal with COVID-19.

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Arrest parents who leave their children to roam during the lockdown. Children must be kept at home per the law.

Now that the measures put in place have become stricter, the honor lies on us all to keep children at home.
They should stop roaming. Boys going to play football all day must be tamed by both parents and the general public.
Young guys gathering in strick corners to play draft, football, and other related activities must desist.

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Just as we have emergency numbers to call in case of COVID-19. There must be numbers to call for each area or police station catchment area to report persons we believe are flaunting the rules.

We must all ensure our children stay at home. Children left to roam is dangerous and against our efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

Tough times require tough measures. Today’s challenges and risks posed by the COVID-19 are not to be disregarded.
Our safety is a shared responsibility.

Source: NewsGhana24 | Wisdom Hammond