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7 fake deaf, dumb, blind women arrested with 22 trafficked kids

The Delta State government has handed over 22 trafficked children and seven women that feigned deaf and dumb but are human traffickers to the police command in the state.

The women who faked blindness and pretended to be dumb allegedly mustered the children from Imo, Anambra, Abia and Ebonyi states to Warri in Delta State to be used as beggars before  nemesis caught up with them. Immediately they were caught, they formed blindness to cover for their shady deal.

 

Two of the children who went to a nearby shop to beg for food exposed them. In the course of interrogation by the owner of the shop, who wondered how they were led by blind women and survive the stress at their age, raised the alarm.

Further interrogation led to the discovery that the women were not actually blind but pretended in order to be using the children to extort money from unsuspecting members of the public.

“We immediately put a call to the Ministry of Women Affairs, Social and Community Development who came to arrest them,” the shop owner said. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mrs Kevwe Agas, in Asaba yesterday said the traffickers deceived their parents they want to register them in schools, only to convert them to street-beggars at Airport Road, Warri. She said the ministry would hand them over to the police that will later hand them over to their respective state governments before they are reunited with their families.

She said, “Some parents have been coming to identify their children. We will not hand them over to their parents directly so that the children will not be further trafficked.

We are handing them over to their state governments that will do the needful,” she assured. She said the suspects would be prosecuted according to the Childs Right Law of Delta State.

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