The Defence for Children International (CDI)-Ghana, a non-governmental organisation for the implementation of the 'Girl Power project' in the Obuasi municipality, has, since 2011, provided legal service for a number of girls and women in helping to settle 204 cases, which included defilement, child maintenance, child labour and stealing.
Dr. George Oppong, Executive Director of DCI-Ghana, who announced this at a day's community leaders' workshop, stressed the need for community leaders to lobby with the Obuasi Municipal Assembly to enact bye-laws to protect and control children, especially the wayward ones.
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