Kaduna and Nasarawa States.
The children mostly between the ages of four and eight, including three
teenagers, three Malams and two drivers were intercepted last Thursday
night by men of sector 2 attached to Operation Safe Haven stationed
opposite University of Jos.
The Police Public
Relations Officer, ASP Tyopev Mathias Terna, who confirmed the incident
said that the minors were being moved from Bauchi and Jigawa States to
the two States for Islamic education adding that the police was
liaising with the State governments of Bauchi and Jigawa to handover the
children.
The children reports looked tattered and
were seen queuing up to receive water for ablution on Tuesday morning.
The two drivers of the Trucks Ibrahim Muhammad and Ibrahim Umar said
they were conveying only 96 children to Jagindi in Kaduna State and
Lafiya, Nasarawa State.
Muhammad said he was given N60, 000 to
convey 72 children with their malams to Jagindi while Umar said he was
given 10,000 to convey 24 children to Lafiya adding he was also
conveying some grains which was why he had charged only N10, 000.
The Malams who gave their names as Dahiru
Usman, Abdullahi Muhammad and Abdulrahman Yahaya all claimed to be
from Bauchi State and said the children were handed to them by their
parents and were to be taken to Lafiya and Kaduna for three months
which they claimed is the usual trend during the dry season after
harvest.
The three malams and two drivers have been charged to court.
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