The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA has rescued about 23 children between the ages of one and 14 in Priesthood Orphanage in Karon Majigi village, Abuja trafficked from Plateau.
Following this development, the Administration on Monday sealed the facility where some of the children had been in the uncertified orphanage since 2019.
Mrs. Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, Mandate Secretary, Women Affairs Secretariat, FCTA, disclosed this while handing over the children to Plateau State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Caroline Dafur, in Abuja.
Benjamins-Laniyi explained that the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, had authorized the secretariat to profile and ratify all orphanages operating within the territory.
“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.
She said that the secretariat was already working with Dafur to reunite the children with their families.
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