FCTA seals popular orphanage in Abuja, rescues 23 children

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has sealed the Priesthood Orphanage in Karon Majigi village, Abuja.

This came after the FCTA rescued about 23 children from the facility, who are between the ages of one and 14.

The children were allegedly trafficked from Plateau State.

Mrs. Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, the Mandate Secretary, Women Affairs Secretariat of the FCTA, disclosed this while handing over the children, in Abuja to Mrs. Caroline Dafur, the Plateau State Commissioner for Women Affairs.

Benjamins-Laniyi noted that Nyesom Wike, FCT Minister, had authorised the secretariat to profile and recertify all orphanages operating within the territory.

“Using this as an example, one of the first things I have done is to get approval for the recertification of orphanage homes in Abuja.

“The Minister has approved that there will be a full thorough reprofiling and recertification of anything that has to do with orphanages in Abuja,” she said.

The mandate secretary said that the secretariat was already working with Dafur to reunite the children with their families.

She added that some of the children had been in the uncertified orphanage since 2019.