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The Kaduna State Government has prohibited the fostering and adoption of children due to abuse by orphanage homes.
According to Kaduna state's Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hafsat Baba, some of the orphanage homes were conduits for trafficking and abuse of children.
"When we came on board, we found out that people just turn their houses into orphanages and get these children, but won’t give them out for fostering or adoption. Rather, they use them as a business to get donations and that is what they capitalise on to feed their own children", she added.
"Some are being sold or trafficked, some are exposed to serious dangers; we even learnt that some of their organs are being sold. So, for now we have stopped fostering and adoption. We will seek justice for those children and some of those issues are already before the courts".
The ban would remain in force until the government sanitises the system of adoption and fostering of children in the state, she said.
According to Kaduna state's Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hafsat Baba, some of the orphanage homes were conduits for trafficking and abuse of children.
"When we came on board, we found out that people just turn their houses into orphanages and get these children, but won’t give them out for fostering or adoption. Rather, they use them as a business to get donations and that is what they capitalise on to feed their own children", she added.
"Some are being sold or trafficked, some are exposed to serious dangers; we even learnt that some of their organs are being sold. So, for now we have stopped fostering and adoption. We will seek justice for those children and some of those issues are already before the courts".
The ban would remain in force until the government sanitises the system of adoption and fostering of children in the state, she said.
