Eight-year-old girl thrown out of home, rescued

An eight-year-old girl, Miss. Sarah Mngueshima Jiboh, who was thrown out of the house by her foster parents in Sauka, Abuja, has been rescued and handed over to the Benue State Command of the National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and Other Related Matters, (NAPTIP).

Mngueshima, who was brought to Makurdi by a man she met in a vehicle from Abuja, said was heading to Benue to search for her biological parents. She also said that her foster parents used to maltreat her.

The girl, who hails from Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State, said that she was thrown out of the house by her aunt's husband because she failed to do her domestic chores.

She further explained that she found her way to Benue Links Park, where she was assisted and brought to Makurdi, to trace her biological parents.
According to her, on reaching Makurdi, a passenger she met in the bus, took her to the Police 'B' Division. It was from the police station that she was later handed over to the Zonal Office of NAPTIP.
An Officer with the Benue State Command of NAPTIP, Mr. Paul Otobo, who received the girl, said NAPTIP had already started making efforts to locate the girl’s parents.