Sexagenarian docked by police for abducting 3 children in Borno
A woman in her 60s, Nsa Heneswa, suspected to be a human trafficker has been arrested by the police in Maiduguri, Borno State with two abducted Almajiri children and a two-year-old girl.
The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Abdu Umar, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri.
He said that the suspect was arrested at the Borno Express Motor Park on August 4.
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Umar said that the suspect had arrived in Maiduguri on August 3, and went straight to the Monday market where she saw some vulnerable children popularly known as “Almajiri” begging on the road.
According to him, the suspect called one of the children and offered him N200 and then asked him to accompany her so that she could buy him some clothes.
“She then went back to the town in search of another victim,” he said.
Umar said that the suspect got to the Yan’ Nono in the Bulumkutu area where she stole another child belonging to Mrs Amina Ayuba, a local fresh milk seller.
“When she arrived at the motor park, she requested for a vehicle going to Lagos but members of the union told her it had already left.
“She then begged for a place to stay before the next day.
“Again, she went out and picked the third child.
“However, luck ran out on her when she decided to take one of the kids to a local restaurant to get some food,” he narrated.
The CP said that a commercial driver operating on the Abuja line at the motor park became suspicious of the way the suspect was behaving and alerted the security and surveillance team at the motor park.
He said the suspect was arrested and handed over to the police for investigation.
According to him, the woman confessed that she was planning to take the children to Lagos.
Umar said that the suspect alongside her accomplices may have been in the business of buying and selling children for some time before the long hand of the law caught up with her.
Speaking to NAN in police custody, she said:” honestly, this is the first time I am doing this.
“I have never done this before. A woman in Lagos introduced me to this.
”I also have a nurse who was assisting me in the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital,” she said.
