Sokoto: Two police officers nabbed for kidnapping minors

The Sokoto State Police Command has confirmed the apprehension of immoderate of its unit allegedly progressive successful the kidnapping of minors successful the state.

The command’s spokesman, ASP Ahmad Rufai, who confirmed the apprehension of the officers simply identified arsenic ASP Kulu and 1 different named Elizabeth, said the bid has commenced investigations into the alleged abduction of 5 children from the state.

Recall that an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Kulu, alongside her accomplice, Elizabeth, were arrested by the FCT constabulary bid for allegedly abducting 5 children, including a little than two-week-old babe miss successful the state.

Rufai said, “Both the suspects and victims were transferred and handed implicit to the bid from FCT constabulary bid for further probe into the matter.”

Among those abducted were 3 toddlers nether the property of two, and a five-year-old named Asmau Ya’u, who was reportedly abducted portion connected her mode to an Islamiyya schoolhouse successful Sokoto.

The suspects were said to person been arrested portion travelling from Sokoto to Abuja successful an 18-seater commercialized autobus erstwhile immoderate passengers alerted the constabulary adjacent Abuja aft noticing that the custodians of the children could not breastfeed them during the seven-hour journey.

The authorities authoritative of the Human Rights Network, Sirajo Madawaki, said the lawsuit was transferred to the web bureau successful the authorities from Abuja, and an probe into the lawsuit has since begun.

Madawaki assured that the web would prosecute the lawsuit to its logical decision and guarantee that suspects were prosecuted and the children reunited with their respective parents.

The suspect, ASP Kulu, who was said to beryllium serving with the Kubwa Division, had applied for leave, which was not granted earlier her travel to Sokoto.