The Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in the Lagos State
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, ICIRNigeria reports.
Ananaba
has been 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.). .
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The
victim was rescued on Tuesday 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. .
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“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. .
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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. Via: ICIRNigeria