Mothers of freed kids back Kaduna slave school’s harsh methods, torture
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In a move that could be described as startling, some parents of the freed 300 male children allegedly chained, tortured and sexually assaulted at an Islamic school in Kaduna have protested against the police for putting their children in protective custody.


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The protesters, mostly women and who openly backed the operators of the school and their methods, asked the police to release their children immediately.
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They insisted the allegation by the police that the children were being sexually abused at the Islamic school was false.
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Some of the mothers said there was nothing wrong with the Islamic school, wondering why the police decided to raid it.
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The Kaduna State Command of the Police had on Thursday raided the Islamic school located in Rigasa, Igabi Local Government Area of the state, freeing 300 male children in the process.
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The police said some of the victims were from Burkina Faso, Mali and other African countries, adding that the students confessed to have been abused homosexually.
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Some other victims were said to have been subjected to daily recitation of the Holy Quran and prayers with torture.
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“The man who is operating this home claimed that parents brought their children here for rehabilitation. But, from the look of things, this is not a rehabilitation centre. No reasonable parent will bring their children to this place,” the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Ali Janga, had said during the raid.
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Some of the boys and men were said to have been held captive for years inside what could be described as a ‘building of horrors’, which was advertised as an Islamic school.

Some of the victims, as young as five years old, said they were tortured, sexually abused and starved and while being prevented from escaping.

Many of them had metal chains around their ankles and visible injuries.

One of those who were saved by the police alleged that some victims had died.

The police arrested seven teachers of the Islamic centre, including its proprietor, Mallam Ismaila Abubakar, who insisted all they did at the centre was the teaching of Islam.

"All those allegations of torture, dehumanisation and homosexuality are false and mere allegations. We do nothing here other than teaching people Islam,” he said.

However, on Friday, some mothers of the freed children protested against the police, saying they wanted their children reunited with them.

One of them, Maryam Fatika, whose four children attended the centre, said there was nothing wrong with the school, wondering why the police decided to raid it.

According to her, none of her children had ever complained of any form of maltreatment.

Fatika said, “We are aware that they (children) are being punished whenever they do wrong because they are dangerous and stubborn children.

“There is nothing wrong with the school because we took our children there by ourselves. So, we don’t know why the police raided the place.”

Another woman, who identified herself as Mama Jibril, said her son had spent six years at the centre.

According to her, there is nothing wrong with the centre.

She said she sent her son to the centre because “Jibril was becoming a threat to the family.”

She said, “We took him to the Islamiyya school for rehabilitation and to God be the glory, he has changed.

“I visited him and I have never seen anything wrong going on in the school."

"We don’t even know where they (police) took our children. We are appealing to the government and police to return our children to us and we are also okay with the way the children are being handled by the Islamiyya authorities.”

Shafa’atu Zakari, who said she had six children in the school, said the children were drug addicts and uncontrollable.

She said, “That’s why we took them to the school to acquire Quranic knowledge"


“We took the children to the school because we didn’t know what to do with them. Presently, four of my children are among the students taken away by the police.

“We demand their release because the founder of the school, Mallam Ismail, is doing everything possible within Islamic teachings to rehabilitate them for us.”

Some residents of the area where the centre is located also claimed some of the students were drug addicts.

Ahmed Balarabe, who lives close to the school, denied the children were being sexually abused.

He said, “I share a fence with the school and my two sons attended the school and they never told me anything about being sexually abused.

“Being a neighbour that always enters the school, if such thing was happening, I should have known.”

Speaking on the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer in Kaduna State, Mr Gambo Isa, said the command was still taking the details of the children rescued from the facility, adding that the owner of the school and six teachers were still being held.

He said, “Investigation is still on. We are trying to compile the list of the children. The facility is like a school and it has been operating for some time. From the information we got, the children were kept there; they (the suspects) operated it like a school.

"We got intelligence and went there. Seven suspects – the owner of the place, Ismaila Abubakar, and six others who act as teacher – have been arrested. Chaining them is what we are saying is illegal. You cannot chain human beings just because you want to punish them.”

Meanwhile, one of the Islamic centre’s directors, Mohammed El’Zubair, has denied the allegations by the police.

“No responsible father would take his child to where he would be molested sexually.

Okay.God wil help us

Lord lugard no try he should have merged the north with chad and niger

I'm speechless. These people iberiberism is out of this world. Spits.

Very unfortunate

There should be a law (if not existing) that ALL children MUST be enrolled in school until 16 years. Penalty should include fines or prison sentence for parents or guardians.

Northern Nigeria is massively underperforming in educating their population and this is a detrimental effect on Nigeria.

Boko haram in the making. That's one way whites are better than the blacks. They can never subject an animal to this kind of maltreatment not to talk of human beings

@ op, las las, the northern parts of this country suppose merge with Niger............

Please leave the useless mothers that ignorance,poverty and illiteracy has ravaged their brains to mess up their childrens lives

So the Islamic training also includes raping homosexually

I'm surprised Islam endorses homosexuality.i thought it was just terrorism

I guess it is important that one member of the family (husband or wife) is not that religious. Otherwise the family may be led by the nose by religious quacks with their own agenda

I am in awe, its been a long time since i was this lost for words. I have processed the write up and struggling to find words to describe how i feel about this. So i will just smh and pass .

Wondafu

See them? And you think BH will ever end? SMH

El-Rufai had said: “Nigeria consists of two countries; there is a backward, less educated and unhealthy northern Nigeria, and a developing, largely educated and healthy southern Nigeria.

We have to speak the truth to ourselves and ask why is it that northern Nigeria has development indicators similar to Afghanistan, a country still at war?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-is-two-countries-in-one-backward-north-developing-south-says-el-rufai/amp/

This is the obvious fraud the British knew about but went ahead to force us into an unacceptable contraption called Nigeria where brutes arrogantly feel it's their fiefdom to dominate.

Yet proponents of this fraud keep on tell us that the unity of Nigeria is non-negotiable.Lord Lugard it will never be well with you.

Even Punch dae vex for Tacha, imagine headline Bbnaija throws out Tacha

A fool is born every second in this country!

Firefox05177:

to early to post scam. I am waiting

Do you call that a school or ISIS recruitment centre! The police should carry out a thorough investigation on the so-called Islamic International School

The North! Those people matters go tire even Dangote himself. Children that are meant to be in school ooo this is how terrorism starts !

Hehehehe
All I can do is laugh
These women are like the average Nigerian
We just love those destroying our lives
If u support either PDP/APC you are not different from these women.

“We took the children to the school because we didn’t know what to do with them. Presently, four of my children are among the students taken away by the police."

There it is for you....this is at the very core why that section of the country breast all tapes of under development the world over.

People of extremely low intellectual capacity...I'm very sure Yarimo, iammo & GoTV are graduates of this school

This should be investigated further, as far as am concerned this could be a terrorist training ground.
Was this place approved by the government?
But in this Godforsaken country anything goes so i don't expect much from this.
If nothing else they are guilty of abuse and forced detention so NAPTIP should charge them to court.

Phayie:
Boko haram in the making. That's one way whites are better than the blacks. They can never subject an animal to this kind of maltreatment not to talk of human beings

Hmmm
Whites enslaved people
Whites dropped Atomic bombs
Whites killed Jews in gas chambers
My brother na still blacks get mercy pass
Except you become a Muslim
Then your head is replaced

It's a pity that in this 21st century northerners still practice such. The govt, both federal and state must act by ways of making education free and compulsory if they want to put an end to this.

No surprise here. Rigasa is a slum where humans are competing with rats for space. The police knew about this place long before now. It will continue long after this affair. As long as the almajiri system and reckless child bearing is allowed this kind of school and others like it will keep springing up.

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