The strange deaths among trafficked children in Plateau state have become a great concern to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).
The Director of the Commission in Plateau State, Grace Pam, while speaking at a one-day workshop in Jos, organized by the Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Center (RULAAC), noted that some parents willingly offered their children to be trafficked.
“We have found out that in some local governments in Plateau State, parents willingly offered their children to be trafficked for just peanuts. Our findings also showed that most of these trafficked children ended up as organ harvest victims.
“The traffickers deceived parents with claims to take these innocent children for domestic work while their main intention was to go and harvest their organs.
“The traffickers then returned them to their parents after harvesting their organs and the parents will accept them without knowing. Shortly after returning these children, they develop certain complications and later died.
“I, therefore, use this opportunity to call on parents all over the state to stop this habit as such practice amounts to human rights abuse.
“We know child trafficking is a poverty-induced crime by poor parents, but the parents should know that the child they traffic out becomes vulnerable to the inhuman crime of organ harvesting.”
She called on the state governor, Simon Lalong, to constitute a special task force that will monitor the activities of traffickers in the state.
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