Kaduna recovers 13 children sold to traffickers in other states - The Nation Newspaper (2025)

April 13, 2025 by AbdulGafar Alabelewe, Kaduna

The Kaduna State Government has rescued 13 children allegedly sold to child traffickers outside the state.

The Commissioner, Ministry of Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Rabi Salisu, disclosed in a chat with newsmen that the stolen children were first taken to Abuja by a syndicate who from there ferried them to Enugu.

Some members of the trafficking gang, she said, were yet to be arrested.

“One of the abducted children was stolen when the child was seven days old, and now, the child is seven years old.

“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,” she said.

She, however, lamented that all the recovered children already had their names changed.

She said: “All of them have had 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 counseling and support, food, medical care and rehabilitation.

“Upon review of the situation in one of the scenarios after the arrests made, on 24th March, 2025, the ministry received 11 children from the office of the state Commissioner of Police and from Abuja.”

The Commissioner said five members of the kidnapping gang disclosed that the gang’s leader operates an orphanage in Abuja, and under this guise they conduct their nefarious activities.

“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.

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“This evil act is so alarming that all the children found and brought back have lost their identity, so much so that they cannot remember their original homes.

“Seven of the children were received on 9th April, 2025 from the State CP’s office. The remaining children from Abuja were six others brought back from Birnin-Kebbi, who were abducted and sold to a woman nicknamed Maman Salamatu in Calabar, name concealed as the case is still under investigation in Kebbi.”

She called on parents who lost their children and are searching for them to come forward with concrete evidence, proof of birth and other relevant information to be reunited with their children.

She advised parents to be vigilant, imbibe the culture of good parenting and nurture their children with good moral upbringing to protect them against all forms of abuse, violence and exploitation.

Ali Adamu, whose daughter, Maryam, was abducted on 13th February, 2025 in Kogi State, thanked the ministry and other government agencies for reuniting him with his daughter.

He called on parents to be watchful over their children so that they do not go through the trauma of losing them.

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