{"id":25278,"date":"2020-03-13T22:56:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25278"},"modified":"2020-03-13T22:56:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T21:56:05","slug":"ngo-orphanage-decry-continued-detention-of-proprietor-maltreatment-of-children-by-kano-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25278","title":{"rendered":"NGO, Orphanage Decry Continued Detention Of Proprietor, Maltreatment of Children By Kano Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Nigeria Office and the Du Merci Children Development Ministry, in Kaduna have taken their case to God in prayers over the continued detention of the co-proprietor of the Du Merci orphanage home, Prof. Solomon Tarfa in Kano prisons.
\nThe advocacy campaign and prayer was organized by the Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Nigeria\u00a0at the ECWA Gospel Church,\u00a0Barnawa, Kaduna.
\nThe Du Merci Development Ministry operates orphanage homes in Kaduna and Kano States.
\nProfessor Tarfa and his wife, Mrs\u00a0Mercy Tarfa opened\u00a0the Du Merci Orphanage in 1996 to care for abandoned children in the Christian District of Sabon Gari, Kano. The centre provides accommodation for all children brought to the home as well as accommodate young women who are pregnant out of wedlock, until they give birth, reconciling them whenever possible with parents who had rejected them due to social stigma.
\nIt is alleged\u00a0that the Kano state government had clamped down on the orphanage, accusing its operators of conspiracy and abduction of minors.
\nBut while addressing the congregation, the Chief Operating Officer of CSW, Agera Teman, expressed concern over the apparent persecution of the proprietor, who has been in detention for over two months.
\nShe said the CSW would\u00a0not cease praying for Christian(s) under persecution and noted that if Prof Tarfa would not get justice from man, he would get it (justice) from God.
\nShe prayed that God would intervene for Tarfa and other children in the orphanage home currently being held at various government \u2013 owned homes under dangerous and unfavourable conditions.
\nOn her part, wife of the proprietor, Mercy Tarfa, during the prayer service, went down memory lane on how her husband was arrested by officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and the police and has been in custody since December 25, 2019 till date.
\nSpeaking with journalists shortly after the Church service, Mrs Tarfa said the police and NAPTIP officials invaded their home and arrested her husband like a \u201chardened criminal.\u201d
\nMrs Tarfa further said; \u201cMy husband was arrested and detained since December 25, 2019. He is at the Kano Central prison located behind the Emir\u2019s palace in Kano.
\n\u201cFor over two months and some days now, it was only last week Monday that I was allowed to see him because they told us that it was an order that only his lawyers should be allowed access to him.
\n\u201cThe way the police and NAPTIP officials invaded our home, it was like they were out\u00a0to arrest a hardened criminal. The police alone were about 30\u00a0and all of them, had guns. The children were scared. He was charged to court on the 29 of December, since that time it was one adjournment or the other. They have refused him bail.\u201d
\nIn a message of lamentation, the children of\u00a0(the) Orphanage through Samuel G. Tarfa, said; \u201cWe in Du Merci Orphanage have experienced the crude hands of injustice in a country that is said to be democratic, while our father, Professor Tarfa was initially held for not having a licence to operate an orphanage, the charges were subsequently changed to \u2018criminal abduction of minors\u2019 after his wife, our Mother, Mrs Mercy Solomon Tarfa, produced the requisite documentation proving registration.
\n\u201cOur father, Professor Tarfa and his wife, Mrs Mercy Tarfa, opened the Du Merci Orphanage in 1996 to care for abandoned children in the Christian District of Sabon Gari, Kano. The centre provides accommodation for all children brought to the home, we view them as parents and are educated and cared for us until we are able to live successful independent lives.
\n\u201cThey accommodate young women who are pregnant out of wedlock, until they give birth, reconciling them whenever possible with their parents who had rejected them due to social stigma.
\n\u201cOur parents have spent 28 years of their lives providing the best for every child, depriving themselves of the luxury of this world, never taking any vacation trip outside the country, never bought a house of their own nor lived in separate apartments like most orphanage proprietors do.\u201d
\n\u201cPlease all (well-meaning) people around the world, we are calling on you to come to our aid and help stop this menace on our home. We want to be united back with our family. School has resumed and the children taken away from the home are left doing nothing”.
\nBy Forefrontng.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Nigeria Office and the Du Merci Children Development Ministry, in Kaduna have taken their case to God in prayers over the continued detention of the co-proprietor of the Du Merci orphanage home, Prof. Solomon Tarfa in Kano prisons. The advocacy campaign and prayer was organized by the Christian Solidarity Worldwide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[816,90,1265],"class_list":["post-25278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-du-merci","tag-kano","tag-tarfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}