Temporal Ban On Child Adoption In Kaduna State.

The Kaduna State Government has placed a temporal ban on ' Child Adoption And Fostering' in the state. The temporal ban has been as a result of the increase of abuse by the orphanage homes across the state.

In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) on Thursday in Kaduna; Hajiya Hafsat Baba, the Commissioner for Woman Affairs and Social Development disclosed that the step was necessary because the government had discovered that some of the orphanage homes were been used for child abuse and trafficking.

Baba went further to disclose that the ban remained in force until the state government sanitizes the system of child fostering and adoption. 

She further said:

"When we came on board,we found out that people just turn their houses into orphanages and get these children but won't give them out for fostering or adoption. Rather ,they use them as a business to get donations and that is what they capitalise on to feed their own children".

"We have also found out that children were being  sold, so we felt that this is a very serious issue that need s our intervention".

"We wrote to the governor seeking approval to stop fostering and adoption because we don't know where the children are been taken to. Some are being sold or trafficked, some are exposed to serious dangers; we even learnt that some of their organs are being sold".

"So for now,we have stopped fostering and adoption. We still seek justice for those children and some of those issues are already before the courts". It was hereby on this note she further disclosed about the court case between the ministry and a Ghanian man after three children were retrieved from him.

She stated that the ministry have been said to have undertaken a mapping of all the orphanages in the state in conjunction with relevant government agencies. She also said that the ministry had already drafted a regulatory framework that will guide the operations of orphanages in the state and as soon as the necessary corrections are made,the present ban would be lifted.