By Decontee M. Wesseh
MONROVIA, Jan. 21 (LINA) –Labor Minister Moses Y. Kollie has said that the ministry is working to improve labor practices through strengthening of laws governing the sector.
Kollie said the ministry is currently endeavoring to scrutinize the existing laws on issues relating to bad labor practice as well as human and child trafficking, among other labor infringements.
« We are working with our partners to ensure that the issue of child trafficking is eradicated from Liberia. »
According to Kollie, upon the coming to power of the Weah-led government, the Ministry of Labor noticed a huge gap in the sector in terms of unmet needs for child justice.
Kollie said at the Ministry of Information regular press briefing in Monrovia recently that the Ministry has begun putting measures into place that will enable speedy redress of issues relating to child justice in the country.
« We are aware that there are people who are in the habit of going to rural areas for other people’s kids to bring them to Monrovia, and they are not being treated well, this must stop, » Kollie cautioned.
He, however, disclosed that the child trafficking case involving Hawa Bangura, a Sierra Leonean national, who trafficked a five-year-old girl from Sierra Leone to Liberia, has been ended and the culprit sentenced by a court.
Kollie added that Bangura was arrested, prosecuted and is currently at the Monrovia Central Prison.
He then called on citizens and foreign residents who are involved in acts of child trafficking to desist or be ready to face the weight of the law.
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