About half of the 30,000 cases that have been received by the Women and Juvenile (WAJU) Unit of the Ghana Police Service, were as result of non-maintenance of children by their parents a WAJU official said on Wednesday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dasaah, the new National Director of WAJU made this assertion said most of the cases were due to broken homes and neglect by parents.
Mrs Dasaah said these when Mrs. Angela Dwamena - Aboagye, Executive Director of the Ark Foundation called on her in Accra to interact with the new WAJU Director and Officers as well as her vision for the organization.
Outlining her vision, Mrs. Dasaah said her major priority was to build the capacity of WAJU by developing the human and the material resources of the organization.
She said her outfit would collaborate with the various Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the country to reduce the abuses in the system.
Mrs. Dasaah also noted that she would provide holistic services and follow-ups to ensure that victims who had been traumatized as result of abuse were protected.
She called for public awareness on the Domestic Violence Bill and other sub-cultural practices that were militating against women and children in the country.
Mrs Dwamena-Aboagye said the visit was to congratulate and welcome the new director to her office.
She said the foundation has been working with WAJU since its establishment six years ago and expressed the hope that this collaboration would be strengthened.
Mrs Dwamena-Aboagye also called on the government to pass the Domestic Violence Bill to protect women and children who were being abused because there were no laws in the country to protect them.