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Police Expose NGO in Human Trafficking

Concord Times (Freetown)
NEWS
April 20, 0823
Posted to the web August 23, 2004

By Rachel Horner
Freetown
A non-Governmental Organization, HANCI, engaged in human trafficking from
Sierra Leone to America has been exposed by the police, Senior Assistant
Commissioner of Police in charge of crime, Richard Moigbeh, disclosed Saturday.
Mogbeh says that Dr.Roland Kargbo, Emeric Abu and John Gbla all working for
HANCI often visit homes and cajole destitute parents to give out their child to
be taken care of in an orphanage run by the organization in Makeni.
He explained that Kargbo and co pretend receiving funds from overseas to take
care of the children whom they transport in batches to Guinea And Ghana from
where they are trafficked to another organization, Main Adoption Placement
Services (MAPS) which sponsors the criminal syndicate. MAPS later sells the
children to other foster parents where they are treated as domestic slaves.
Moigbeh also added that Emeric Abu and John Gbla had formed another NGO
operating clandestine programmes after they broke out from Dr. Kargbo not too
long ago.
They were caught with 29 children.
Police are currently tracing the biological parents of the children whilst
investigations continue. The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's
have been informed of the criminal syndicate.

   

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