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Police arrest family for kidnapping, selling children

Kano police command has arrested a family in connection to some missing children, who were kidnapped in Kano and sold in Onitsha, Anambra State.

Kano State Police Commissioner, Alhaji Ahmed Illyasu who disclosed this at a press conference yesterday, said that already the police had rescued nine children from the syndicate which was made up of a man, his wife and a ring of others.

According to him, the gang of traffickers, led by Mr. Paul Owen (38) and his wife, Mercy Paul (38), were smashed by police tactical team and the Inspector General of Police Operation Puff adder, attached to the anti-kidnapping squad.

He said the abducted children were aged between two and 10, adding that the two suspects were arrested while trying to take one of the kidnapped victims, Haruna Sagir Bako to Onitsha in Anambra state

Ben Idah

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