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The Kaduna police command has rescued 13 children allegedly trafficked to Enugu state.
Speaking on Saturday with journalists, Rabi Salisu, the state commissioner for ministry of human services and social development, said the traffickers took the children to Abuja, before taking them to Enugu.
Salisu said one of the victims was trafficked 7 years ago when the child was barely seven days old, adding that the children were unable to identify their locations.
“One of the abducted children was stolen when the child was seven days old and now, that same child is seven-years-old,” Salisu said.
“The children cannot identify their locations, but the authorities will do everything humanly possible to ensure that all the children are reunited with their family members.
“All of them have their names changed from Hausa to other names. Those brought to Kaduna are under the special intervention and emergency support of the government under the ministry’s facility to provide psychosocial counselling and support, nutritional food, medical care, and rehabilitation.”
She noted that the children have been provided with psychosocial counseling, nutritional food, medical care, and rehabilitation, adding that efforts are underway to ensure they are united with their parents.
The commissioner said the police have arrested five members of the gang and called on parents searching for their children to come and identify them.
“Upon review of the situation in one of the scenarios after the arrest made on 24th March, 2025, the ministry received 11 children from the office of the state commissioner of police from Abuja,” the commissioner added.
The commissioner added that the suspects revealed that their gang leader operates an orphanage in Abuja which she uses to carry out the trafficking operation.
“She uses her orphanage as temporary shelter for the stolen children and negotiates for their sale to prospective buyers in the eastern part of the country,” she said.
“This evil act is so alarming that all the children found and brought back have lost their identities so much that they can’t remember their original homes.”
