By Whloquoi Yeahgar
ywhloquoi@gmail.com
Monrovia,Liberia: Assistant Justice Minister for Correction and Rehabilitation, Eddie Tarawali has alarmed over the huge influx of young people in prison cells across the country.
Assistant Minister Tarawali assertion is based on his recent tour of prison facilitates across the country.
According to him, 75 to 80 percent of those incarcerated are young people.
He added that criminality and illegal drugs consumption are two of the many factors leading to their imprisonment.
The Youthful Assistant Justice Minister wants his peers desist from such hobbits and respect the rule of law.
He added that violators will be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with the law.
Assistant Justice Minister Eddie Tarawali spoke to street vendors under the nomenclature Value Boys and Girls of Mechlin Street honored his fellow Assistant Gender Minister, Mamensie Kaba in Monrovia.
Meanwhile, Assistant Gender Minister for Planning and Administration, Mamensie Kaba has termed the empowerment of her peers as pivotal to eradicating poverty.
Kaba used the occasioned to denounce those seeking wealth at the detriment of Liberians.
According to her, President Weah’s preferment of young people in government is a tool of motivation for others.
