Lamenting about this growing issue, the Department of Social Welfare Director at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Dr. Comfort Asare, has sent a word of caution to beggars on the streets. Comfort Asare stated that these beggars see the practice as a lucrative business, forgetting the embarrassment they subject others who refuse to give them alms to. "We call on families to stop children from living on the streets...These children even get angry if you don't give them alms. You are disgracing Ghana," Dr Comfort Asare said.
