THE National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arrested one Paulina Okere, an Indigene of Adavi in Kogi State, for trafficking..
THE National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons has arrested one Paulina Okere, an Indigene of Adavi in Kogi State, for trafficking 74 children under the guise of running an orphanage.
So far, the agency has rescued and recovered 11 of the children and they are undergoing counseling and rehabilitation. The DG, who was represented at the conference by the Director Research and Programme Development, Anthony Mwoka, said that the agency was collaborating with sister agencies in locating the remaining children.
“She claimed that the children are orphans, but some of the parents have debunked the claim. The suspect carries out her activities with the collaboration of some workers of the orphanage who are now on the run.“In the same vein, members of the community are still coming forward with names of some children said to have gone missing within the same neighborhood.”
Another parent, Laraba Haske said that she was told that the woman was assisting parents in training their children, so she sent two of her grandchildren aged eight and ten to the orphanage since she was having difficulty taking care of her own six children. “I fell sick, and when I was about to be admitted, I called the man that handed the children to me with their community leaders and asked them how to go about it, and they suggested that I raise foster parents for the children.
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