Father Arrested for Selling His Six Children

Operatives of The Sokoto State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of ten members of a human trafficking and child abduction syndicate. The multiple arrests which led to the rescue of 21 children, further led to an investigation and subsequent discovery surrounding one of the suspects, Bala Abubakar, a resident of the Tudun Wada area of Sokoto State. 

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The Sokoto State Commissioner of Police, CP Ali Hayatu Kaigama, while speaking to the press on Thursday 30th May, revealed that the arrested Bala Abubakar had engaged in the sale of a total of 28 children with six of them being his biological offspring. The police CP further stated that these suspects sold their victims to two people named Kulu Dongoyaro and Elizabeth Ojah, in exchange for money ranging between 150 to 200,000 naira. The child traffickers (Kulu Dongoyaro and Elizabeth Ojah) had told the abductors that the children were taken to an NGO located in Abuja, the nation's capital, where they were cared for and their welfare catered to.  The rescued children have now been taken to a real orphanage run by the Sokoto State Government.