Nene Mahumansro XIII, Chief of Agortime-Afegame on Friday suggested to government to establish cottage industries across the country, as a measure of controlling child trafficking and child labour.
He said this would help address poverty, the root cause of child trafficking and child labour.
Nene Mahumansro said this at a day's community sensitization on child trafficking at Afegame, a border town near the Republic of Togo in the Adaklu-Anyigbe District.
The event which attracted pupils and teachers from the Togo side of the border was organized by the Department of Children.
Nene Mahunmasro said such cottage industries would engage people especially women in viable economic ventures and take them away from child
trafficking.
He also urged government to make conscious efforts at empowering traditional authorities in the fight against child trafficking and child
labour.
Nene Mahumansro observed that the nation's forebears took the welfare of children seriously through the extended family system, which provided security to all children including orphans.
He said that culture should not be lost on the current generation in its bid to grow economically.
"We must know that trafficked children do not go to school, lacked self confidence and have hardly any future," Nene Mahumansro said.
He asked government, traditional authorities and other stakeholders to step up campaign on the issue, to secure good future for the nation and its children.
Mr Edwin Gamadeku, Volta Regional Director of the Department of Children, underscored the need for a united effort at addressing child
trafficking and child labour issues in the country.
He charged the populace to report incidents of child trafficking and child labour to authorities because it was against the law to conceal such acts.