AMA to support Judicial Service…in the welfare of children

The Accra Metropolitan (AMA) Assembly has taken an initiative to support the judicial service in the welfare of Ghanaian children by setting up an AMA Child Panel Committee.

According to the Chairperson of the Committee, Nii Adjebu Lamptey, the prime aim of the initiative is mainly to support the welfare of a child, and take what is right for a child.

“Issues come to us, we address both parties, and we make sure there is peace,” he added.

Chief Justice Mrs. Georgina Woode shown appreciation to the committee for taking an interest in the judicial act, and promised to collaborate with the committee to support women and children in Ghana.

She stated that the Judicial Service was very much interested in such committees which help bring up the rights of children, to ensure that their physical, social, and financial conditions will be satisfactory.

“This is one of the paramount situations the Judicial Service would like to work on,” she said.

She said aside the welfare of children the service had also set up a court to hearing domestic violence issues, since that was another area that affected children.

“The wellbeing of our Ghanaian children is in our act, and we would do everything we can to promote the rights of our children and mothers,” she said.