The Kaduna police command has rescued 13 children allegedly trafficked to Enugu state.
Speaking on Saturday with
journalists, Rabi Salisu, the state commissioner for ministry of human
services and social development, said the traffickers took the children to
Abuja, before taking them to Enugu.
Salisu said one of the victims was trafficked 7 years ago
when the child was barely seven days old, adding that the children were unable
to identify their locations.
“One of the abducted children was stolen when the child was
seven days old and now, that same child is seven-years-old,” Salisu said.
“The children cannot identify their locations, but the
authorities will do everything humanly possible to ensure that all the children
are reunited with their family members.
“All of them have their names changed from Hausa to other
names. Those brought to Kaduna are under the special intervention and emergency
support of the government under the ministry’s facility to provide psychosocial
counselling and support, nutritional food, medical care, and rehabilitation.”
She noted that the children have been provided with
psychosocial counseling, nutritional food, medical care, and rehabilitation,
adding that efforts are underway to ensure they are united with their parents.
The commissioner said the police have arrested five members of the gang and called on parents searching for their children to come and identify them.
“Upon review of the situation in one of the scenarios after
the arrest made on 24th March, 2025, the ministry received 11 children from the
office of the state commissioner of police from Abuja,” the commissioner added.
The commissioner added that the suspects revealed that their
gang leader operates an orphanage in Abuja which she uses to carry out the
trafficking operation.
“She uses her orphanage as temporary shelter for the stolen
children and negotiates for their sale to prospective buyers in the eastern
part of the country,” she said.
“This evil act is so alarming that all the children found
and brought back have lost their identities so much that they can’t remember
their original homes.”
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