PARENTS OF ABDUCTED CHILDREN APPEAL FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION TO CURTAIL KIDNAPPING 03-01-24
By Sadiq Aminu Parents of missing children in Kano state, have called on the state government to set up a commission, that would ensure speedy investigation and release of their children.
The chairman of the group Comrade Isma’il Ibrahim Muhammad made the call in Kano.
According to him, their children are still under the custody of a criminal syndicate, who specialised in abducting and selling under aged children.
Comrade Isma’il explained that, a syndicate specialised in kidnapping young children from Kano to the Southern part of the country, rename, convert and sell them to others.
He stressed that, over six hundred children were abducted in the last few years, and only 18 have so far been reunited with their families.
The chairman pointed out that, the affected families and their relations were undergoing extreme trauma courtesy of the abduction of their loved ones by the criminals.
The affected parents under the umbrella of the Protection Against the Abduction/Missing of Our Children, who spoke to Africa 247 correspondent demanded for thorough investigation into the matter.
Recall that, in 2019 Kano police command arrested a syndicate alleged to have abducted over 40 children from neighborhoods such as Walalambe, Walawai, Hotoro, Kawo and Tishama, all in Nassarawa local government, as well as Rimin Kebe and Dakata in Ungogo local government areas of Kano state.
Last week Kano state governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf, reunited not more that seven children with their parents, who were abducted from Bauchi and sold in Lagos and Anambra states.
Africa 247 correspondent reports that, the seven children were recoverd from nine suspects, apprehended by the Kano State Police Command, at Mariri Motor Park in Kano while en route to Lagos.