{"id":67005,"date":"2025-05-31T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67005"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T16:55:54","slug":"fct-police-arrest-pastor-three-others-for-alleged-child-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/31\/fct-police-arrest-pastor-three-others-for-alleged-child-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT: Police Arrest Pastor, Three Others for Alleged Child Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has arrested a pastor and three others for alleged involvement in child trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects include Pastor Prince Bassey Ajah, popularly known as \u201cDaddy G.O.\u201d of Wells of Salvation Church, Byazhin Across; his younger brother, Isreal Ajah; and two women\u2014Nancy Atoo and Deaconess Vera Duru.<\/p>\n<p>Police operatives attached to the FCT Police Response Team arrested Isreal Ajah around 2:00 a.m. at the Wazobia Motor Park in Gwagwalada as he attempted to travel to Owerri, Imo State, with a seven-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>Following a distress call from park officials, police moved swiftly and intercepted the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations revealed that the child was being trafficked for sale, allegedly in a deal worth \u20a61.2 million arranged by Deaconess Duru.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations led to the arrest of Pastor Ajah and the other two female suspects. During a search at Nancy Atoo\u2019s residence, police rescued another victim; a four-year-old girl identified only as \u201cMercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No documentation was found for the child, who was reportedly named by the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>She is now in protective custody, while efforts are underway to trace her biological family.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for the Command, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the arrests in a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>She said the suspects had planned to sell the children in Owerri before their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Benneth C. Igweh, commended the swift intervention by motor park officials and police operatives.<\/p>\n<p>He urged parents and guardians to remain vigilant and to avoid sending minors on errands unaccompanied.<\/p>\n<p>The command also urged residents to report suspicious activities to the nearest police station or via the following emergency lines: 08032003913, 08061581938, or 07057337653.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has arrested a pastor and three others for alleged involvement in child trafficking. The suspects include Pastor Prince Bassey Ajah, popularly known as \u201cDaddy G.O.\u201d of Wells of Salvation Church, Byazhin Across; his younger brother, Isreal Ajah; and two women\u2014Nancy Atoo and Deaconess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67005","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67007,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67005\/revisions\/67007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}