Police Parades 10 Suspected Traffickers , Others, Rescue 21 Minors in Sokoto
Police Parades 10 Suspected Traffickers , Others, Rescue 21 Minors in Sokoto
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Sokoto State police Command have paraded 10 suspected human traffickers, including nine females and one male, for allegedly stealing 28 children from different locations in Sokoto State for transactional purposes..
The Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Ali Hayatu, disclosed this in Sokoto on Thursday while parading five other suspects arrested for committing various crimes in the state.
According to him, one Kulu Dogonyaro with Elizabeth Ooja boarded commercial vehicle with five childrento Abuja.
He said other passengers started suspecting Kulu when one of the breast feeding child was crying instead of her to breastfeed him she was feeding him with powder milk.
Upon reaching Abuja the passengers and the drivers reported the matter to nearby police station, when asked she told them that the children were given to her by their parents to be taken to Non Governmental organization for upkeep.
When Abuja police transferred the case to Sokoto, upon investigation Kulu now implicated other suspects whom she has being selling the children to.
Another suspect is a middle aged man who sold his five biological children to Kulu ranging from N100000 to N150000 each.
Also the command also paraded 3 of the suspects who kidnapped a lawyer in early hour of last Sunday at Bado quarter, Sokoto.
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According to CP Hayatu when they got the report of the abduction of the lawyer the police Division in Yabo LGA in conjunction with Army and local vigilante swung into action by combing the forest tracing the foot print of the kidnappers , on sighting the security agencies the kidnappers opened fire and the joint forces responded leading to the killing of one of the kidnapper while three others were arrested with one fatally injured .
He further said the police also arrested one Shehu Gummi from Zamfara state who killed her lover at Ifeoma guest in , Sokoto
He also said the police arrested a young man who impersonated police and extort money from gullible applicants and their parents that he will help them in this ongoing police recruitment.
He enjoined the general public to report criminals to police or provide them with intelligence information that will lead to their arrest.
