Officers of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, connected to the Fast Response Squad 74, have arrested a pastor, Simon Kado; his relative, Jesse Simon-Kado, and their driver, Muhammad Isah, for youngster trafficking.
They had been arrested on Friday whereas trafficking 12 minor youngsters – eight women and 4 boys between the ages of 5 and 16 – from Nasarawa State to Ogun State.
The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, introduced the event in a press release on Saturday.
Adeh stated: “Operators of the FCT Police Command, connected to the Fast Response Squad 74, on Friday, February 9, at about 12.55pm, intercepted a person Muhammad Isah, from Kafanchan, Kaduna State, in a Toyota Hiace van with Reg. No APP 489 XE, with twelve; 4 males and eight girls; minor youngsters to a vacation spot later found to be in Ogun State.
“Preliminary investigations have revealed that the kids aged between 5 and sixteen years, all from Akwanga LGA, Nasarawa State, had been trafficked to Ogun State by a Pastor Simon Kado, male, and Jesse Simon-Kado, man, who’s now at the moment in police custody.
“Whereas investigations are nonetheless ongoing and efforts in collaboration with the Nasarawa State Police Command on learn how to reunite victims with their respective households, the Commissioner of Police, FCT, Benneth Igweh, want to reiterate that the security of residents stays his high precedence .”
The FCT has lately suffered a rise in kidnappings and bandit assaults.
In January 2024, operatives of the Particular Intervention Squad, Federal Capital Territory Police Command, neutralized three infamous bandits in a forest within the Bwari space of Abuja.
Throughout the identical month, a kidnap kingpin recognized as Janari, who was stated to have masterminded a number of kidnappings in Kaduna State and Abuja, was killed together with a few of his foot troopers throughout operations carried out by the air part of Operation Whirl Punch in Kaduna State.
