The ministry in charge of gender equality to the rescue of an 11-year-old boy burned

General News on Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-02-12

The Ministry of Gender, Childhood and Social Welfare has resumed the case in which a 29-year-old bricklayer burned a 29-year-old boy for allegedly looking at a woman in the ward. bath.

The ministry intervened after Clbad91.3FM had started telling the story, which had caused national outrage.

William Jalulah, a first-clbad FM regional correspondent, said the victim, Maxwell Ayinbisa, is still healing himself from the injuries he sustained after the suspect sprayed him with gas. him in flames.

On November 24, 2017, Ayinbisa and two of her friends were sent to buy gas at a gas station.

According to Ayinbisa, on the way to the race, a man accused him and his friends of having a look at a woman in a bathroom.

The little boy said his friends had fled the scene and left him behind. He was seized by his accuser, Nsobila John, who tore off a gallon of gasoline, sprinkled it with fuel and hit him with a match.

The victim's father, Mustapha Rahamani, told Clbad News that the suspect, after handling the boy's initial medical bills, had abandoned him.

Chief Superintendent Samuel Punobyin, commander of the Bolgatanga Municipal Police, told Jalulah that the families of the victim and the suspect had reached an agreement to settle the case amicably from the moment the incident occurred. The suspect's family also promised to take over the boy's medical expenses, but went bankrupt along the line.

Gifty Twum Ampofo, Deputy Minister for Gender, Women's Protection, Children and Social Welfare, told the executive Benjamin Akakpo, general manager of the show Show Clbad Breakfast Show, that: "We collaborate with district far away in the far east of the region".

She added that the ministry was waiting for reactions from officials by the end of next week, Monday.

Ms. Ampofo added, "When the man stopped paying Maxwell's medical bills, the parents should have gone back to the police" to be sued because they already had the file in hand.

She added that the problem would have been brought to the Victims of Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU), who would in turn have contacted the Social Welfare Department to have the victim registered in the national scheme. Health Insurance (NHIS) in a certain category "where they pay nothing at all" for the treatment of injuries.