Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection Cynthia Mamle Morrison has said the government cannot just close down the witches’ camp in the northern part of Ghana without a proper plan put in place for the women who have been locked-up in those camps.
She told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Monday, August 10 that the government will have to prepare a special budget to cater for the women if they are eventually evacuated from the place.
Decent accommodation, she said, will also have to be provided for them after they are moved.
Mrs Morrison noted although the calls for the closure of the camps are in order, the government will act based on proper planning.
There have been calls for the closure of the witches’ camps following the recent lynching of a 90-year-old woman at Kafaba near Salaga in the Savannah Region, on the accusation that she was a witch.
The incident happened on Thursday, July 23, 2020 in the East Gonja Municipality.
But the Gendre Minister insisted: “It is not just a matter of closing the witches’ camp. When you close the witches’ camp where are you taking them to?
“We have to know where we are taking them and make sure that where we are taking them there is enough food for them to eat, whether we have a budget for it and all that.
“Some of them may even run to the bush if we are not carful so we need a dialogue on this. As for the withes’ camp, the name itself is something that I don’t like so that name will go.”
By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana