News:
February 20, 2019
Member of Parliament for North Dayi, Joycelyn Tetteh has pledged her commitment to push for the implementation of an established support fund for victims of domestic violence.
According to the North Dayi lawmaker, the full implementation and compliance of Act 732 in which certain responsibilities must be borne by government, Parliament and the judiciary will help in the support of such victims.
Again framers of the Act recognize the importance of financial resources in operationalizing it, so they determine that the victims of domestic violence support fund should be established, she added.
“To rescue, rehabilitate and reintegrate victims, I reckon sources of funding as listed in Article 31 of Act 732 remain woefully inadequate and we should explore other workable solutions to this problem of funding which remains an existential challenge”.
The North Dayi MP was contributing to a roundtable discussion hosted by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) on the theme, “full implementation and compliance of domestic violence Act (Act 732) Government, Parliament and Judiciary responsibilities”.
On the issue of support funding for victims, Joycelyn Tetteh noted that she does not see it as a problem, so far as we have a Gender Children and Social Protection Ministry which has a budget that is brought to Parliament.
“The Ministry must prioritize issues of domestic violence and make provision for it in the budget; definitely no committee would see such a budget and think that the money being allotted to the sector is too much”.
She further questioned “how many times have you heard the issue of domestic violence being raised on the floor of the House? It is not normally done”.
“I want to commit myself to it, I want to go back to Parliament and table a question invite the sector Minister as I table a question for her to come and answer”.
.Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com