The Sokoto State Police Command acknowledged the arrest of some of its personnel who were reportedly involved in the kidnapping of juveniles in the state.
The command’s spokesman, ASP
Ahmad Rufai, confirmed the arrest of the officers, merely identified as ASP
Kulu and one named Elizabeth, and said the command has launched an inquiry into
the suspected kidnapping of five children from the state.
Remember that an Assistant
Superintendent of Police, ASP Kulu, and her accomplice, Elizabeth, were
detained by the FCT police command for allegedly abducting five children,
including a less than two-week-old baby girl in the state.
Rufai said, “Both the suspects
and victims were transferred and handed over to the command from the FCT police
command for further investigation into the matter.”
Among those kidnapped were
three children under the age of two, as well as a five-year-old girl called
Asmau Ya’u, who was apparently kidnapped on her way to an Islamic school in
Sokoto.
The culprits were claimed to
have been nabbed while travelling from Sokoto to Abuja in an 18-seater
commercial bus after several passengers informed police near Abuja after noting
that the children’s caretakers were unable to breastfeed them during the
seven-hour ride.
Sirajo Madawaki, a state
official with the Human Rights Network, stated that the matter was transferred
from Abuja to the network office in the state and that an inquiry into the case
has begun.
Madawaki stated that the
network would carry the case to its logical conclusion, prosecuting the
culprits and reuniting the children with their parents.
The suspect, ASP Kulu, was
claimed to be stationed with the Kubwa Division and had requested leave, which
was denied before her trip to Sokoto.
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