By Uzair Adam Imam
The Department of State Services (DSS) has disrupted a child trafficking syndicate, apprehended a 17-year-old young woman and her sponsor, and rescued a 4-year-old girl named Aisha, who was abducted from Nguru in Yobe State.
The Kano office of the DSS said the Kano State Hisbah officials handed over the abducted 4-year-old girl, Aisha, to them after they suspected that there was no connection between the abducted baby and her.
The DSS noted that after receiving the abducted 4-year-old Aisha and her abductor, they traced the man behind the child trafficking from neighbouring states and subsequently sold in the Southern part of the country.
The DSS said after interrogation of the 17-year-old lady, she confirmed to them that the man whom she knows, selling groundnuts close to her home, introduced her to the abduction of the 4-year-old Aisha and promised her that nothing would happen to her.
The ringleader of the children’s abductors confirmed that the kidnapping of the 4-year-old Aisha was the third nefarious act he had perpetrated from Nguru.
“Luck ran out of me after I used this lady to get Aisha for me and brought her to Kano, where I normally collect the abducted children and pay off the abductors while I move on with my partners”, he confessed.