A Kumasi-based Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) has called for effective measures to check child trafficking to enable children to enjoy their basic rights as citizens. Dr George Oppong Ampong, Executive Secretary of the Defence for Children International (DCI), therefore urged members of Steering Committees against child trafficking to form children’s rights clubs and vigilante committees in industries and communities to educate people on the need to stop the menace in society. Dr Ampong was speaking at a day’s workshop organized for 21 members of the Steering Committee against child trafficking in Kumasi on Monday. The workshop organized jointly by the DCI and the Social Research Associates, a research and consultancy firm, aimed at deepening the knowledge of the participants to enable them to adopt effective and pragmatic solutions to the problem. He announced that Kumasi had benefited from Child Trafficking Project being undertaken by the DCI and Social Research Associates and funded by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Dr Ampong said under the project, 10 communities in the Metropolis where child labour was prevalent had already been selected for the Project and appealed to the members of the Committee to educate people to know the negative effects of the menace. He mentioned the communities as Aboabo Number One; Aboabo Number Two; Sawaba; Adum; Bantama; Buokrom; Fante New Town; Roman Hill; Asafo and Asawase. Mr Francis Kwansa, Kumasi Metropolitan Labour Officer and Chairman of the Committee, said the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) had already set up similar Committee to check child labour and trafficking in the Metropolis. He appealed to the committee members to work harder and to adopt effective campaign tools to help to educate people to address such problems in society to enable children to enjoy their basic rights as citizens of the country.Source: GNA