Police rescue 147 victims from another Kaduna Islamic rehabilitation centre

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai led some policemen
to raid another rehabilitation home, ‘Malam Nigga Rehabilitation
Centre’ in Rigasa in Igabi Local Government Area of the State.

At the centre, 147 men, women and children were rescued.

The victims comprise of 125 males and 22 females. Among them
were four foreigners from Cameron and Niger Republic as well as
underaged children.

They have all been taken into the protective custody of the
Kaduna State Government.

This is coming less than a month after the police raided an
Islamic centre at the same Rigasa in Igabi LGA of the state,
evacuating 300 persons, who were chained.

The police claimed the victims were from Burkina Faso, Mali and
other African countries. Some of the children were rescued and
placed under protective custody by the state government while the
owner of the centre and teachers were charged to court by the
state.

The Kaduna State Police Command has confirmed the raid.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo who
confirmed the incident, said thorough investigation would be
carried and that the owner of the centre who is already in the
custody of the police, would be further quizzed.

Sabo said the governor personally led the police to the centre
to ascertain what was happening there.

He also explained that the owner of the centre said the children
under his custody at the centre were brought by their parents.

The police chief said, “The governor led the police to the
rehabilitation centre to find out what was happening. The centre
claimed that it was certified to rehabilitate and train people in
skills acquisition.

“The owner said they were brought by their parents to undergo
rehabilitation as a result of drug abuse or other forms mental
sickness. We will investigate and find out why the people were
chained.

“The owner has been arrested and the children have been taken to
Hajj camp by the state government for medical checks and eventual
reunion with their parents.”

Meanwhile, policemen have been deployed to guard the inmates at
the Hajj camp at the Mando area of the state.

The Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development,
Hafsat Baba, who confirmed to newsmen that 22 of the victims were
were females while four were foreigners, said that some of the
victims were indeed mentally ill.

She, however, added that the state had contacted a psychiatric
doctor to come and examined them.

The Commissioner said, “The number of inmates evacuated from the
centre was 147 in total among them 22 females while four were
foreigners from Niger and Cameroon.

“We also have underage among the inmates and those who are not
mentally stable.‎ We have contacted a psychiatric doctor who will
come to examine them.”

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