Taking Omang to street kids

Monday, May 05, 2014

Direpang Segosebe (red top) posing for a picture with street youths and their witnesses at African Mall.

The Department of Civil and National Registration in the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs took their National Identity registry services to street youths at the African Mall on Friday.

However, efforts to register and issue the vagabonds with the National Identity cards failed, as some of the witnesses did not meet requirements.

The parents and relatives of the street kids were invited to partake in the process after nursing officer, Direpang Segosebe pleaded with the ministry to initiate the move. This special arrangement would give the underprivileged citizenry an opportunity to have an Omang.

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