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.
