Onyejike-Ananaba was arraigned at Court 9 Ikeja, on Monday
over alleged abuse of her 10-year-old housemaid.
Ananaba, founder of the Girl Child Art Foundation (GCAF),
was arrested last December following the rescue of the 10-year-old girl in her
home at Omole, Ikeja by the officials of Office of the Public Defender (OPD) in
the Lagos State Ministry of Justice. She was subsequently released by the
police without being charged to court.
She had allegedly been abusing the girl for three years,
since bringing her to Lagos from the eastern part of the country.
A source who spoke to ICIR said that although the girl had stopped
schooling, she continued taking Ananaba’s two kids to and from school every
day.
“She is up as early as 5am sweeping the house and even up
till 11pm. You need to see all the marks on her body; horrible. She gets beaten
up by Ananaba all the time; morning beatings are customary. This is a very
serious case of human trafficking.” the source said.
When Ananaba brought the girl to Lagos from the eastern part
of the country about three years ago, she enrolled her in public school while
her children were attending private school.
It was alleged that the girl had been doing all the domestic
chores and she was constantly beaten by Ananaba. At the moment, OPD has taken
custody of the girl.
Ananaba, a graduate of Fine and Applied Arts from the
Institute of Management and Technology Enugu (IMT), Enugu, who also holds an
M.Sc. in Management of Development, with specialisation in HIV and AIDS from
Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Science Wageningen, Netherlands, once
told an American audience that girl children were seen as people who were not
important in the Nigerian families.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs awarded the 2008
Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellowship on Social Entrepreneurship to Ananaba, upon
which she featured on Chicago Tonight presented by Phil Ponce on WTTW.
In the interview, Ananaba said she founded the foundation to
build the confidence of girls in a society that discriminates against them.
She claimed to have used arts to empower and educate
thousands of young women where sons are more highly valued than daughters and
many girls drop of school at a young age.
Na here irony use two hand touch ground!
A minor is your maid, that on it's own is an offense, then, you abused her join...
And you call yourself the messiah of the girl-child?
Do you now see why most of us believe that these busybody NGOs are set up by self-seeking individuals?
Source: (ICIR)
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