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Ten suspects apprehended; 26 children rescued from captivity in Sokoto

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Sokoto State Police Command agents have apprehended ten people in connection with the alleged sale of six children and 22 others. One of the accused is a 45-year-old father.

This was revealed on Thursday by Hayatu Kaigama, the state’s commissioner of police.

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It was also revealed by the Command that 26 minors, kidnapped in the state and sold elsewhere, were rescued.

Rumor has it that Bala Abubakar, who lives in the Sokoto metropolis’s Tudun Wada Area, allegedly sold the kids for a sum of N150,000 to N250,000.

The FCT Police detained five children in Abuja last month, and he was also accused of selling them.

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Children were rescued from several states across the federation, according to the CP, who was speaking to the press at the Command headquarters in Sokoto.

While some of the victims were abducted on their way to Islamiyya schools, others were taken from their moms, who are widows, under the guise of taking them to an organization for proper upbringing, he noted.

He claims that the Sokoto orphanage was entrusted with the care and protection of twenty-one of the kidnapped children.

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He elaborated by saying that prior to their arrest, several of the accused had admitted to purchasing the children from Mrs. Kulu Dogon Yaro, who was dealing in their purchase from Abubakar.

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