Africa-Press – Eswatini. The Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), Thuli Dladla, wants corruption rooted out in the registration of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVCs).
The DPM, who was representing the Prime Minister (PM), Russell Mmiso Dlamini, during the anniversary of the United Nation’s (UN) 78 years of existence, expressed this desire while touring the stalls of the different entities under the UN. The event was held at Mhubhe High School at Ngulwini yesterday. Dladla, who toured 17 stalls, engaged the personnel under the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), after their presentation. This was after they had informed her that among, other things, they offered dignity packs to pupils who were OVCs. After this submission, the DPM requested that the organisation engage in the census to establish the number of OVCs within all the constituencies. She said the information should also include those who had completed school and were idling at home.
This information, she said, would assist in linking up the OVCs with other programmes, which would set them on the right career paths. “The census will also assist in weeding out those who are registered as OVCs in schools, while they do not deserve to be benefitting,” she said. Dladla was touring the stalls along with the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Prince Simelane, Minister of Education and Training Owen Nxumalo, UN Resident Co-ordinator George Wachira and Mafutseni Constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Sabelo Mtetwa.
On the other hand, while at the stall for the World Health Organisation (WHO), the DPM expressed appreciation to the personnel for the assistance they extended to the country at the height of the coronavirus (COVID-19). She was further chuffed by the partnership between WHO and the Ministry of Health, as they were vaccinating pupils yesterday against human papillomavirus (HPV) to minimise cases of cancer.
Meanwhile, Prince Simelane, when they were at the Legal Aid stall, expressed jubilation after hearing the great things that the entity does. In fact, the minister committed to the personnel that the first motion he would have in Parliament would be addressing Legal Aid.
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