Police rescue minors from traffickers in Kaduna

The police in Kaduna have rescued two minors; Nasirudeen Mahmud (5), and Zainab Umar also (5) and handed them over to their parents in Kaduna.

The command’s public relations officer, Aliyu Usman, while parading suspected traffickers, kidnappers and armed robbers on Monday, said the suspected traffickers, one Abukara Adamu (44) and his wife Fatima (38), abducted Mahmud on January 19, while Umar was abducted on March 27.
He said the victims were rescued on October 7 from the traffickers, who were found with two international passports and two birth certificates with the children’s details.
“This indicates likelihood of flying the victims to unknown foreign country,” he said.
The police also paraded three other suspected kidnappers who kidnapped one Audu Hairi at Kaura Market in Giwa local government area in July.
“The victim was taken to an unknown forest where he was brutally handled. All the suspects confessed to the allegation, “he said.
The police spokesman said three armed robbers were also arrested on October 2, at Birnin Gawri following a tip-off.

He said exhibits recovered from the suspects include N146,925 cash, three cutlasses, six gallons of palm oil and 14 cell phones. Usman said as soon as investigation was completed, all the suspects would be charged to court for prosecution.
He, however, appealed to members of the public to cooperate with the police by giving them useful information on activities of criminals in the state for prompt action.

Meanwhile, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has arraigned an illegal polytechnic operator in a Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
The alleged illegal operator, Johnson Babatola was arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo on a 7-count charge bordering on advance fee fraud and operation of illegal polytechnic.
Babatola, a former principal manager of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Ado-Ekiti branch, pleaded not guilty to the charges

The EFCC said that the suspect was arrested following a petition from the National Board for Technical Education in Kaduna, alleging that he was operating an illegal polytechnic named Teedek Polytechnic at Ilogbo, Ekiti State. The board said that the accused had allegedly extorted gullible students, who were not aware of the status of the institution.
The petitioner further alleged that some of the students of the polytechnic had earlier reported the institution to the board and they had published the school as an illegal institution in some national dailies.