Priesthood Orphanage in Karon Majigi Village, Abuja
FCTA seals orphanage over alleged trafficking of 23 children in Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has sealed the Priesthood Orphanage in Karon Majigi Village, Abuja, after 23 children between the ages of one and 14 were rescued from the orphanage.
The children were believed to have been allegedly trafficked from Plateau.
Mrs Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, the Mandate Secretary, Women Affairs Secretariat, FCTA, disclosed this while handing over the children to Plateau Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs Caroline Dafur, in Abuja on Monday.
She said that investigation was ongoing to unravel the facts of the allegation.
Benjamins-Laniyi also said that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had authorised the Secretariat to profile and recertify orphanages operating within the nation’s capital.
“Using this as an example, one of the first things I have done is to get approval for the recertification of orphanage homes in Abuja.
“The Minister has approved that there will be a full thorough reprofiling and recertification of anything that has to do with orphanages in Abuja,” she said.
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The mandate secretary said that the Secretariat was already working with Dafur to reunite the children with their families.
She added that some of the children had been in the uncertified orphanage since 2019.
Also speaking, Dafur said that three of the children had escaped due to the poor condition of the orphanage.
She added that the escaped children were discovered by officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps, who reported the case to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons.
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