The father of one of the children rescued in Anambra State has narrated how his son was kidnapped.

“When the police told me they were going to Onitsha in search of missing children, I never thought the investigation would yield any results concerning my son,” Muhammad Ali said.

Mr Ali’s five-year old son was one of the children missing in Kano that the police recently recovered in Anambra State.

“Days after, they called me on the telephone that they were back, we should come and identify our children. I rushed to the station and when I saw my child Usman, I was emotional with tears running down my face. I thank the Almighty Allah and Mr Babagana (the police chief overseeing the anti-kidnap section in Kano).”

Mr Ali, a resident of Sauna-Kawaji, Nasarawa Local Government Area in Kano, told PREMIUM TIMES how his child was kidnapped when Muslims were celebrating Sallah this year.

“On day two of the celebration, Usman went out to visit my younger brother’s house close to our house. That was where they lured him and took him away. We searched for him all over but we could not find him. We reported the incident to the police and left everything to God.”

The elated Mr Ali commended Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and Kano residents for their support throughout the trying times.

“I hope the government will intensify efforts to rescue the remaining victims and that justice will be done to us.”

The police said nine children were kidnapped in Kano in separate incidents and were allegedly renamed and sold off in Onitsha, the commercial city in Anambra State.

After their rescue, the police commissioner in Kano, Ahmed Illiyasu, at a press conference at the police headquarters in the state, presented the children to their parents after parading the suspects.

Mr Illiyasu said the police busted the syndicate behind the crime and arrested eight suspects. He said the group specialised in kidnapping, concealment and confinement of kidnapped persons, buying and selling of minors and trafficking in persons.

He said the police carried out the operation in Onitsha following a five-year public outcry in Kano over reports of missing children. The Command’s tactical teams of Operation Puff Adder was detailed to investigate the cases. He said anti-crime strategies using community policing tools were employed during the operation.

Protection of Children’s Right Paramount Responsibility – Gov Ganduje

The Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has vowed to ensure justice is done for the nine rescued children. He said all legal instruments would be used to address the situation.

The governor’s spokesperson, Abba Anwar, said in a statement that no criminal will go unpunished in the state.

He said the government would prosecute arrested kidnappers and their accomplices would be prosecuted.

The governor said he would set up a committee on the matter, with a view to identifying the root causes and prevent recurence.

Mr Ganduje appealed to parents to always be “extra vigilant” over their children.

Justice must be served – Group

A group, Kano Concerned Citizens Initiative (KCCI), called for justice for the nine children.

The head of the group, Bashir Tofa, in a statement commended the police for resolving the case. Mr Tofa said the crime was special because it has ideological undertones.

Mr Tofa, a former presidential candidate, said other kidnappers demand ransom unlike in this case where the children were abducted for certain purposes which the police are yet to reveal.

“Whatever was the purpose of these abductions, it is still frightening because of the newspaper reports of the horrendous experiences the children underwent.

'' This is a specialised organised crime that manipulates religion to exploit the innocent children. It is widely reported that the names of the children were changed and they were “converted” to Christianity,” Mr Tofa said.

“This is a very dangerous dimension. We, therefore, call on all umbrella religious associations of Christians and Muslim to condemn this evil act and take the necessary steps. If we recall when one Esie Oruru of Bayelsa State was claimed to have been taken by her lover who converted her to Islam, Muslim leaders condemned the behaviour and took the appropriate steps since the girl was under-aged. The press also made several headline stories and commentaries.

“So we now expect nothing less from them on this issue of abduction of nine children who were abused in the name of converting them to Christianity. And, possibly, they were being taken for other purposes such as slavery, human sacrifice for rituals or use in baby factories, which have become rampant crimes of such kind of abductors.”

The group called on the police not to relent in their efforts of unearthing the motives of the abduction.

“In addition, we call on the Nigerian Police and the security agencies to do their utmost to investigate if there are any more of these captive children and adults from other states enslaved anywhere else in the country, not only in Anambra State,” the statement added.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/359526-how-my-son-went-missing-during-sallah-in-kano-was-found-in-anambra-father.html

Bring Back Our Children

The traffickers deserve a life imprisonment in a cage with monkeys.

Billionaire gang

If na Hausa man now, d whole world go hear

I don't want to sound like a tribal chauvinist but why a particular group of people in this country can't do without one form of crime or another? Why?

[[s]quote author=hammerT post=83474101]AND WAT IS YOUR POINT?

DO U KNOW HOW MANY CHILDREN THAT GET MISSING IN THE SOUTH AND FOUND IN KANO, HELD AGAINST THEIR WILL AND FORCED INTO MARRIAGE?

U THINK YOUR OWN CHILDREN ARE UNTOUCHABLE BECOS U ARE HAUSA OR FULANI?


UR STUPID[/quote][/s]

Is it just me, or are those kids looking healthy and well taken care of?

At a point i was wondering if this was the right photo to go with the story!

IGBOSON1:
Is it just me, or are those kids looking healthy and well taken care of?

At a point i was wondering if this was the right photo to go with the story!

Check out the difference.


Children that are enjoying life and properly cared for.


Those people had no intention to harm them, they saw them on the strret and offered them home, family and love. They probably cannot have their own kids. The same ones creating baby factory.

Charleys:
As long as the kids are not complaining that's fine.

You send your kids to do Almajiri. They took them to take care of them properly now you are shouting up and down.

Take a look at those kids, they don't look like the typical Almajiris because they are well fed.

In fact they were angry because the police caught up with their new lifestyle.

What a stupid justification for a blatantly terrible crime .

Can you read at all; if you can, then pls show us where the article claimed the children were Almajiris?

These are the kind of unguarded and obviously insensitive statement that often incite resentment and dislike for you ppl - at times with serious repercussions.

THESE ARE JUST BUT FEW CHILDREN FROM THE SOUTH, KIDNAPPED, RAPED, IMPRISONED AND FORCED INTO ISLAM IN KANO. THE LIST IS MUCH LONGER THAN THIS.


THE CHICKEN HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST.

Ese Oruru v Sharia Hisbah Commission
Ese Oruru was taken away by one Yunusa Dahiru from her home in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State to Kano in August 2015 while she was still 13 years old and without the knowledge of her parents. While in Kano she was forced into marriage, converted to Islam and her name changed to Aisha.For months, efforts by the young girl’s parents to get their child back from Yunusa and the Kanohe District head of Kura, Sharia Hisbah Commission proved abortive, no action was taken until media attention was drawn to it. Ese held at the Palace of the Emir of Kano was discovered to be 5 months Pregnant after eight months captitity.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/my-role-on-ese-orurus-abduction-saga-emir-of-kano-2/

Rita Chinedu Ukeje V Sharia

Madam Jessy Ukeje, a 77-year-old grandmother from Eluoma Uzuakoli in Bende Local government area of Abia State, is in pains her granddaughter was given out in marriage by a top official of Zaria City Local Government area, without the consent of her family.Rita, an SS 3 student of Top Spring Secondary School, Zaria, Kaduna State, was abducted by a commercial bus driver, called Usman, who held her captive in his home, denying her the chance of sitting for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) she had enrolled for.

Few weeks later, she stated, the council chief, who took her to his home and promised to make her available for settlement with the family, allegedly gave her out in marriage to Usman. The incident happened in Damagaji area of Zaria in Kaduna State, even as every effort made by the family to rescue the teenage girl from the clutches of her abductors have met with stiff resistance from the kidnappers. They took her into captivity after undergoing their Muslim rituals of bathing and feeding her with concoction as a way of turning her into a Muslim.

Then, they gave her to somebody to marry without the consent and knowledge of her parents. This is certainly against religion and against tradition

Mama Jessy, who could not hold back tears while narrating the abduction of the girl in her house in Eluoma Uzuakoli, alleged further that the girl’s abductors are after Rita’s mother, Joy Ihedinma Ukeje, for insisting that Rita must be sent back to her. She alleged that they had been sending assassins to her, forcing her to quickly run back to Uzuakoli from Zaria after several attempts on her life.
http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/another-15-year-old-girl-rita-chinedu-ukeje-abducted-given-out-in-marriage-by-islamists/

Ifeoma Nichodemus v he Sharia Court Kaduna
IFEOMA, now Aisha, is the daughter of Mr. Ndubuisi Nichodemus. She was living with her parents, in the midst of the Hausa community in Zaria, Kaduna State, until May, 2014. On that fateful evening, Ifeoma had left the house in protest against the authority of her moth­er to question her for returning late to the house on the day. She simply walked out of her parents’ compound into a neighbour’s house, and since 21 months ago to be precise, the family is yet to set their eyes on her. Ifeoma, now 16, have been converted to Islam and married off. The Sharia Court handling the mat­ter keeps adjourning the case and as a result, we are still where we were last year”
Speaking during an interview then, Ndubuisi Nichodemus, resident of Sabon-Gari, Zaria, Kaduna State, who appealed to the authorities concerned, to help rescue his daughter, allegedly in the custody of another man since 2014, said her daughter had come home late on that fateful day and felt, as responsible par­ents, she should be scolded
http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/father-of-igbo-girl-abducted-in-zaria-cries-out-says-i-want-my-daughter-back/

Charity v Sharia Court Minna
MINNA—MISS Charity (Aisha) Uzoechina, the lady that was allegedly forced to convert to Islam and kept in the palace of Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar, for the past four months, will remain with the monarch until September 17. Charity cannot be released by the Emir to either the parents or anybody until the case instituted by Charity is vacated by the Sharia court in Bida, Niger State. The Sharia court kept adjourning the case the lawyer who handles her controversial case in Sharia court makes arrangement to marry her without the consent of her parents, but the Niger state Government called it off.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/charity-uzoechina-to-remain-with-etsu-nupe-till-sept-17/

The heart of man is desperately wicked. Some have already sold their soul to the devil and their conscience is dead. People are ready to device any mean to survive irrespective of what danger such hustle bring to the victims.

It shall never be well with those Christian terrorists. These Christian terrorists read the Bible wrongly. Jesus Christ never told anyone to steal and covert a child.

IF THEY WANT MEDIA, LET US HELP THEM BECOS THEIR OWN HAND IS NOT CLEAN.


HOW MANY STILL REMEMBER ESE?

BELOW IS PICTURES OF OTHERS ON THE LIST.

lol the childreen look very fine ooo

K

Anyone found culpable to this act should be punished heavily and severely....

Where is CAN and xtian leaders to condemn their terrorist kidnapping Muslim children and converting them, abi they are in support?