The Nigeria Police Force, Sokoto State Command, has confirmed the arrest of some of its officers allegedly involved in the kidnapping of minors in the state.
The spokesman of the command, ASP Ahmad Rufai, who confirmed the arrest of Officers simply identified as ASP Kulu and one other named Elizabeth, said the command has commenced investigations into the alleged abduction of five children from the state.
It could be recalled that an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP Kulu, alongside her accomplice, one 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 victims were transferred and handed over to the command from the FCT police command for further investigation into the matter.”
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Among those abducted were three toddlers under 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 be arrested while traveling from Sokoto to Abuja in a commercial 18-seater bus when some passengers alerted the police near Abuja after noticing that the custodians of the children could not breastfeed them during the seven-hour hectic journey from Sokoto to Abuja.
Sirajo Madawaki, Sokoto State official of the Human Rights Network, said the case was transferred to the network office in the state from Abuja, and investigation into the case has since begun.
He assured that the network will pursue the case to its logical conclusion and ensure that the suspects are prosecuted and the children reunited with their respective parents.
The suspect, ASP Kulu, was said to be serving with the Kubwa Division, had applied for leave, which was not granted before her trip to Sokoto.