Walid Yusuf , aged 3
and Mustapha Abdulaziz , aged 2 were two infants allegedly kidnapped from Gombe state by a
child-stealing gang and brought to Anambra state for the purpose of selling
them off at N750,000 each .
The parents of the
stolen kids had alerted the police in Gombe state and the police put a public
notice across on the missing children , thereby sending signals to other state
commands .
This however led to
the trailing of the syndicate and they were eventually apprehended by the police
in Anambra state . The pictures of the kids were posted on Facebook where the
parents found their children on the said social media platform and traced them
to Anambra state .
When interrogated at
the police command headquarters Awka yesterday , the parents of the stolen kids
who spoke only in Hausa language , said they saw the pictures of their children
on Facebook and alerted Gombe state police command and that was how they traced
the whereabouts of their kids to Anambra state where the police reunited all of
them .
However the Police
Public Relations Officer of the Anambra state police command SP Haruna Mohammed
in the release he made available to Journalists on the matter , recalled that on the 22nd of October at
about 10:45am,following intelligence report Police detectives attached to Anambra State Command
arrested three female suspects at Nkpor market/Tarzan junction in Idemili North
LGA of Anambra State.
The release further
disclosed that preliminary investigation
revealed that the children were stolen from Gombe by one Blessing Musa (female
) on the 20th of October this year and
brought to her accomplices in Anambra State.
The police spokesman said " following the
Public announcement by the Command on the 27/10/2019,parents of the two kids
from Gombe State came to Awka and identified their children.They also revealed
their names as Walid Yusuf aged 3 years and Mustapha Abdulaziz aged 2 years
respectively.
Meanwhile,the children have since reunited
with their parents and suspects were handed over to Gombe State Police Command
for further investigation and prosecution. "
Mohammed said that the
Commissioner of Police CP John Bassey Abang urged parents
and guardians to monitor their
children and caution them against following strangers.
He said the CP further
enjoined the public to report suspicious persons to the nearest police station
or call police emergency number 07039194332 for prompt intervention .
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