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Children are targets of Nigerian
witch-hunt |
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The rainy season is over and the Niger Delta is lush
and humid. This southern edge of West Africa, where
Nigeria's wealth pumps out of oil and gas fields to
bypass millions of its poorest people, is a restless
place. In the small delta state of Akwa Ibom, the tension and
the poverty has delivered an opportunity for a
new and terrible phenomenon that is leading to
the abuse and the murder
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CHILD-WITCHES? with
2-day-old twins,
• Accused says children are
witches and wizards brought to her for healing
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The police at Zone 9 headquarters in Umuahia, Abia
State, have arrested two suspected human traffickers and their
accomplices with one of them caught with two-day-old twin
babies who still had their umbilical cords attached.
The other suspect was nabbed with 37 children believed
by the police to be sold for rituals, but the suspect, Rev.
Dr. (Mrs.) Joy Ugwueze, said the kids were witches and wizards
brought to her church
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Child's Right and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) is a charity organisation with a firm belief in, and intent on safeguarding the rights of a child. It was founded in 2003 with a view to reducing the alarming rate of street and abandoned children and to ensure their rehabilitation, including other vulnerable children, particularly in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. |
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Worried by the increasing rate of abandoned and street children in our society and the attacks on them due to stigmatization that they are witches and wizards, and their susceptibility to child trafficking syndicates and ritualists, CRARN came up with an idealistic and a pragmatic approach to address this nagging issue. We believe that these children who are easy victims of modern-day slavery, cheap labour, rape and defilement could be harnessed to become responsible citizens via educational and vocational training.
CRARN hopes that if the issue of child abandonement and street children is properly addressed, a good number of children will not only be saved from the scourge of HIV/AIDS , and other dangers, but the society, too will be saved from the nuisance and security threat that will arise from them in the nearest future.
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