BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS. (PHOTOS).

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 BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS  Benue State has taken a major step toward strengthening child protection and social welfare services with the graduation of 60 Auxiliary Social Workers (ASWs) trained to serve vulnerable children and families at the grassroots. The graduation ceremony, held on Wednesday, marked the successful completion of a programme jointly supported by the Benue State Government, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Benue State Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (BICD). Speaking at the event themed “Building Community Resilience Through Professional Auxiliary Social Work,” the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Mrs. Theresa Apochi-Ikwue, described the initiative as a strategic response to gaps in child protection services across the state. She said the newly trained ASWs would...

POLICE ARREST SERIAL KIDNAPPER+ RESCUE AND REUNITE VICTIMS WITH THEIR FAMILIES.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE.


POLICE ARREST SERIAL KIDNAPPER

- Rescue and reunite victims with their families.

Following painstaking investigation and intelligence
gathering into the abduction of a three-year old boy, Bright,
on October 27, 2022 in Ejigbo area of Lagos State,
detectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department
(SCID), Lagos State Command, have arrested one serial
kidnapper, Joy Kolapo f aged 28.

The suspect was arrested in Omi Adio area of Oyo state
on November 12, 2022 with another victim, one Moses 'm
aged 7 whom she had kidnapped in Olopo Meta area of
Oyo state.

Investigation led to the rescue of Bright in Akute area of
Ogun State same day the suspect was arrested.

Further investigation revealed that the suspect was a
neighbor to Bright's parents and had received the sum of
Fifty-Five Thousand Naira (N55,000) from his parents for
his return. Thereafter, the suspect took the victim to her
friend's shop in Akute, begging her friend to babysit the
child while she went shopping but never showed up again.
The friend immediately notified the Police at Ojodu

Abiosun Division in Akute of the abandoned child.

The suspect then travelled down to Oyo state after leaving
Akute, kidnapped another victim, one Moses, demanded
and received the sum of Twenty Thousand Naira
(N20,000) from his parents before she was eventually

arrested.

The boys have been rescued unhurt and reunited with
their parents. Meanwhile, the suspect has since been
arraigned.


SP BENJAMIN HUNDEYIN, anipr, mipra

Police Public Relations Officer,


Lagos State Command,

Ikeja-Lagos


NOVEMBER 20, 2022.
 

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