Hajiya Ladi Dahiru, a suspected human trafficker has been arrested by jigawa state police command in kazaure local government area of the state.
According to The Punch, the 60-year-old was apprehended on
Tuesday, October 20, with 12 young girls below the age of 13 in Kazaure by policemen attached to safer highway patrols.
The state police commissioner, Usman Abubakar Tilli, while parading the suspect and rescued girls said the woman told the police she was transporting the girls to Islamiyya Schools in Kabala Doki, Kaduna state in order to enroll them, which was later discovered not to be true, Leadership reports.
Police investigation also showed that the woman could not take care of the girls as she has only a two room and parlor in Kaduna, selling firewood and food stuff.
According to the commissioner it was also discovered that the parents of the victims, who are from different villages, handed over their daughters to the suspect who fraudulently made them to believe the statement she gave them.
Tilli stressed that the suspect would be handed over for prosecution after the police had concluded their investigation into the case.
Alkali Baba Usman, the state police commissioner, said that operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), acted on a tip-off about a human and child trafficking cell in Asaba.
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