Anambra Govt arrests six persons for child exploitation, rescues 29 children

Anambra State Government has arrested six suspects for their engagement successful kid exploitation.

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Child Welfare arrested the suspects alongside 29 children who were rescued aft they were caught hawking successful Nnewi, Anambra State.

A property merchandise by the State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga stated that the suspects and the rescued children were handed implicit to the constabulary for profiling, portion the children volition beryllium reunited with their families.

Ikenga said: “The Anambra State Police Command contiguous 29th June 2026 received thirty-six (36) persons, aged betwixt 6 and 44 years, including six (6) suspects, from the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs for profiling arsenic portion of ongoing efforts to combat kid labour, thoroughfare hawking, quality trafficking, and different forms of kid exploitation successful the state.

“The workout is aimed astatine establishing their identities, determining the circumstances surrounding their involvement, and ensuring the imaginable reunification of the victims with their families and respective states of root wherever necessary, successful collaboration with applicable authorities agenc...