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in 2009, she filed a suit for $ 1.3 million against the government for allowing the police to protect Igwe's group. The suit was promptly dismissed. Ukpabio also used smears against other groups critical of her actions, notably the non-governmental organization Safe Child Africa. She has been
272:(WHRIN) seeking damages of £500,000,000. Ukpabio claims that the BHA misrepresented her by saying that she ascribed certain behaviours in children to Satanic possession when she in fact attributed them to possession by 'witchcraft spirits'. The BHA described the case as
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and
Stepping Stones Nigeria, now known as Safe Child Africa, which aimed to look after the children who have been rejected by their parents for displaying what they believed to be signs of witchcraft, assertions which have also been made by the Associated Press.
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She also produces, through her film production company, Liberty Films, part of the
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She incites violence against imputed witches who are usually women, children and elderly persons. The people of
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Ukpabio and other evangelical pastors were encouraging an upsurge in the numbers of children being accused of witchcraft and being abused and stigmatised by parents and communities as a result.
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has the ability to manifest himself in the bodies of children by
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