NAPTIP arraigns suspect, reunites 5 trafficked children with parents

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has arraigned one Musa Abdulrahman in court over kidnapping of five children.

NAPTIP, at a press briefing at the weekend, said Abdulrahman, a 32-year-old man, allegedly abducted the children aged four to seven and sold them to unsuspecting women in different parts of the country under the guise of adoption.

The Director General, Mrs. Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, while handing over the children to their parents said, the suspect issued the would be parents adoption papers purportedly from the Niger State Government.

“But luck ran out on the suspect when a sting operation was carried out by the operatives of the agency. He was caught red handed while helping some “clients’’ fill their adoption application forms,” she said.

She warned parents to guard their children to avoid incidences of kidnapping, trafficking and other crimes against humanity, adding that they should not expose them to criminally mind people.

She said the surveillance followed an intelligence report that Abdulrahman kidnapped children from Niger State and sold them to in different parts of the country.

The DG also said the intelligence report revealed that the suspect had been doing that claiming to be a staff of the Ministry of Social Development of Niger State in charge of adoption matters.

She said Abdulrahman confessed that he collected the sum of N100,000 for each of the children.

The parents have lauded the federal government and NAPTIP management for rescuing their children and promised to take adequate care of them.