Detectives attached to Fegge Police Station, Anambra
State Police Command have smashed a syndicate which allegedly specialized in
abducting and inflicting injuries on children, and would later use them to beg
for alms.
The suspects, Friday
and Ezekiel were both arrested for
being connected to a group known as ‘humanitarian
group.’ Some of the group members are said to be currently awaiting trial at
the Onitsha prisons.
The group is alleged to specialise in
parading children with different kinds of ailments, using them for alms begging
in Onitsha. Some of the abducted targeted children are believed to be sick,
suffering ailments like cancer.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr.
Rabiu Garba, in charge of Fegge Police Station, disclosed that the suspects
were notorious for using abducted children for alms begging. They allegedly
used to move to other locations different from where they were kidnapped the
children and would later inflict injuries on them. The injuries are expected to
attract public empathy.
According Garba, six male children with
hernia as well as a three-year-old baby girl with cancer of the lips, kidnapped
by the suspects had since been rescued and reunited with their families after
being treated of their ailments by the division.
Garba explained that the little girl was
kidnapped at the age of one and half years from Buruku in Benue State, during a
wake.
He said: “My men and I had been closely monitoring
the suspects for a long period of time. Following our suspicion of their
actions with the children, we went after them. We arrested two, while others
escaped.
The DPO advised the citizenry to be cautious
of whom they rendered assistance to.
Garba further said: “The suspects in their
confessions admitted making up to N25, 000 daily through the children. In fact,
they confessed that they made a total sum of N12, 800 as early as 8am on the day they were arrested."
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