Busoga- singled out to
be the number one region with cases of child abuse in the country according to
the report released by ANPPCAN last year.
While reading the
ANPPCAN report to public on the launch against child sexual abuse at Jinja
Busoga square, the deputy RDC Jinja district Mr Sakawa Eric revealed that Busoga
region receives 30% of child sexual abuse in every month and other cases never
reported.
Mr Sakwa blamed this on
parents for negligence of their children which has led many joining drugs,
street life extending the vice to higher chances of being un avoidable, adding
that schools administrators have also given rise to the vice due to school
policy prescribing children to go early to school exposing young ones at the
risk of being raped.
He also pointed out the
Bodaboda riders,chapat sellers tax drivers, video halls and youth idlers especially in slum and rural
areas in the region for luring the
children into the evil act shutting their future. It is at this point that he
warned offenders and threatened to deal with them accordingly.
He also paused a
challenge to the police and accused them
for conspiring with the culprits and release criminals ,a thing culminating the
vice in the region .It is at this point
that he warned to arrest and deal with the police officers who engage in the act according to law.
Mr Sakwa cautioned
parents and victims to report the cases to the authority as the only way to
reduce on the rampant vice in the region.
He noted that the act
has led to increasing number of teenage mothers who are un productive to the
economy of the country, adding that it is also a path for the spread of HIV
AIDS and rampant poverty.
He appreciated the
media for being the key parties in reporting the vice and encouraged them to
keep doing its watchdog role, hoping for the decline at rate which it is
pronounced in the region. End
-By Byekwaso Fazir
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