A 35-year-old mother of eight, Margaret Effiong, has
reunited with one of her kids,Nkoyo, who was given out as a housemaid to a
runaway child trafficker in Calabar. 9-year-old Nkoyo and another child identified as Patience
Stephen (eight) were on September 16, 2016, rescued in Calabar by a lawyer and
child rights activist with Basic Rights Counsel, Mr. James Ibor, following a
tip-off.
The two victims, who were hawking coconut on the streets of
Calabar, had bruises on their body when they were rescued. They were severely
assaulted by one Eka Obong, who is on the run. After rescuing the abused kids, Ibor sent the pictures on the
social media platform, Facebook, where it went virile and someone identified
one of the kids.
Narrating how he rescued the victim to Southern City
News, Ibor said he was able to trace the mother of one of the abused kids to
Ikot-Effanga community in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the state.
The mother of Nkoyo, Mrs. Effiong, who spoke in native
dialect, admitted that she had eight children but had to send most of the kids
to work for people as housemaids because she had no money to send them to
school.
Mrs. Effiong, who disclosed that her husband died five
years ago, said she was into small scale farming and petty trading to provide
food for the three children with her.
Ibor, in his narration said, “After the post on
Facebook, someone who is the distant relation of one of the kids (Nkoyo)
identified her. He had to call our numbers, which were included in the post. We
traced the mother, who is a very poor woman and mother of eight. She
admitted that she gave out her kid as housemaid to someone in Calabar.
"But we are not going to press for charges against
her. All we shall do is to counsel her so that she recovers all her kids. She
already has three of the kids back with her. She felt sober when she saw her
daughter and the daughter (Nkoyo) also felt happy when she saw the mother. We
are encouraging her that she could raise a happy home even in her poor state.”
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