Police ASP, Accomplice Arrested For Kidnapping 5 Minors

An Assistant Superintendent of Police identified simply as Kulu has been arrested over alleged involvement in the kidnapping of five minors in Sokoto state.

According to the state Police Command, the officer was arrested alongside an accomplice, Elizabeth.

The arrest was confirmed by the spokesman of the Command, ASP Ahmad Rufai, saying investigations have commenced on the case.

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Kulu, together with Elizabeth, was arrested by the FCT Police Command for allegedly abducting five children, including a less than two-week-old baby girl from Sokoto State.

The spokesman said, “Both the suspects and the victims were transferred and handed over to the command from FCT Police Command for further investigation into the matter.”

Among those abducted were three toddlers below the age of two, and a five-year-old named Asmau Ya’u, who was reportedly abducted while on her way to an Islamiyya School in Sokoto.

The suspects were said to have been arrested while travelling from Sokoto to Abuja in a commercial 18-seater bus when some passengers alerted the police near Abuja after noticing that the suspects could not breastfeed the children during the hectic seven-hour journey.

An official of the Sokoto State Human Rights Network, Sirajo Madawaki, said the case was transferred to the network from Abuja, saying that an investigation into the case has since begun.

He assured that the network would pursue the case to its logical conclusion to ensure that the suspects were prosecuted while the children were reunited with their respective parents.