The Office of the
Public Defender (OPD) in the Lagos Ministry of Justice, has rescued a
10-year-old girl in the home of Ada Onyejike Ananaba, founder of the Girl Child
Art Foundation (GCAF) — an NGO that claims to provide more than 17,000 girls
with life skill programme opportunities.
Ada was arrested
and charged to court, for maltreating the girl and denying her education.
(She had not been
attending school since the start of the current academic session in
September.).
The victim was
rescued on 12th December 2017 afternoon by the OPD at Ananaba’s home
in Omole, Ikeja. Source revealed that although the girl had stopped schooling,
she continued taking Ananaba’s two kids to and from school every day.
“She is up as early
as 5am sweeping the house and even up till 11pm. You need to see all the marks
on her body; horrible! She gets beaten up by Ananaba all the time; morning
beatings are customary. . This is a very serious case of human trafficking,”
the source was quoted as saying.
Ananaba allegedly
brought the girl to Lagos from the eastern part of the country about three
years ago. At the moment, OPD has taken custody of the victim.
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