Crime
NGO employs kidnappers to populate orphanage
Two suspected child traffickers who have been kidnapping children for an Abuja orphanage were nearly lynched but for offciers of the plateau police command on Thursday in Tundun Wada, Jos North local Government Area of the state.
Commissioner of Police, CP Bartholomew Onyeka, said acting on a tip-off that two suspected child traffickers were about to be lynched, a patrol team led by a Divisional Police Officer (DPO)moved to the scene and rescued the suspects.
The suspects, Dickson and Gatuso, confessed that sometime in the month of July 2022, they were contracted by one Jennifer to abduct and send children to an orphanage home in Abuja for the purpose of attracting funds from Non-Governmental Organisations(NGOs).
The two succeeded in sending two boys and a girl to the orphanage, and got N300,000 for their role.
Jennifer and the owner of the suspected illegal orphanage home in Abuja will soon be arrested.
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