Some of homless children at Pastor John Mundari Church in Gudelle residential area in Juba - Credit | Michael Daniel/Eye Radio - 3rd Sept 2022

The National Transitional Legislative Assembly is set to summon five ministers to account for the increase in street children across the country.

The cited institutions to be arraigned before the August house include the Ministers of Health, Education, Gender, Child and Social Welfare, Interior and Humanitarian Affairs.

They will explain why the rise and what sustainable strategies they have put in place to solve the issue.

This came after one of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly members asked about the increase in the number of children living on the streets on Monday.

“The recommendation is to call on the concerned ministries to answer questions about this important agenda. So, we have rested it upon ourselves that the street children are the future of South Sudan and the nation must be taken care of,”  he said.

“It is one of the most important agendas that we discussed and the ministers concerned must be summoned and come to the house as to answer these important issues,” Agany added.

In 2017,  Confident Children Out of Conflict, an international charity organization estimated the number of children living on the streets in South Sudan as about 10,000 with 3000 in Juba alone.