{"id":13486,"date":"2024-01-08T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2024-01-08T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:45:36","slug":"popular-hotelier-madam-success-arrested-for-child-trafficking-in-gwagwalada-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/08\/popular-hotelier-madam-success-arrested-for-child-trafficking-in-gwagwalada-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Hotelier, Madam Success, Arrested for Child Trafficking in Gwagwalada, Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madam Success, a well-known hotelier in Gwagwalada, FCT-Abuja, was apprehended on Friday attempting to traffic two children from the Angwandodo area. The incident led to the destruction of Madam Success&#8217;s properties in various locations, including Bako area in Kwali LGA, Angwandodo, and Wazobia areas in Gwagwalada LGA, by enraged locals.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Success, residing in Gwagwalada for decades, allegedly orchestrated the kidnapping of at least 50 children around the Angwandodo area through a network of proxies, agents, and associates. Using her brothel and hotel business as a facade, she devised a sinister plan to lure unsuspecting children into her hideouts, disguised as beer parlors and pepper soup joints.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, Madam Success provided a bicycle to one of her agents to entice naive kids away from their parents. The agent, usually a woman in her late 20s to mid-30s, would pose as their mother, delivering the children to Madam Success in Giri, another area in Gwagwalada LGA.<\/p>\n<p>The truth unraveled when two kids were discovered locked in Madam Success&#8217;s beer parlor joint, along with a human skeleton. Outraged residents promptly took action, destroying everything in sight.<\/p>\n<p>Upon investigation by the Civilians Joint Task Force (CJTF), it was revealed that Madam Success had a history of child trafficking, having been caught in Edo and Delta states engaging in the same illicit business. The stolen children were reportedly transported to different parts of the country as merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>The CJTF, working tirelessly, arrested Madam Success in Zuba as she attempted to escape. An ongoing investigation aims to uncover the full extent of Madam Success&#8217;s operation and identify other potential members of the child trafficking cartel in Gwagwalada LGA.<\/p>\n<p>The incident sheds light on the persistent issue of child trafficking in Gwagwalada and Kuje LGAs, emphasizing the need for concerted efforts to dismantle such criminal networks operating within the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madam Success, a well-known hotelier in Gwagwalada, FCT-Abuja, was apprehended on Friday attempting to traffic two children from the Angwandodo area. The incident led to the destruction of Madam Success&#8217;s properties in various locations, including Bako area in Kwali LGA, Angwandodo, and Wazobia areas in Gwagwalada LGA, by enraged locals. Madam Success, residing in Gwagwalada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13531,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}