Police have explained how an attempt by over sixty-year-old woman, Nsa Heneswa to steal three children from different parts of Maiduguri and how her attempt to smuggle them out of the State was foiled.
Borno Commissioner of Police(CP), Abdu Umar, said Heneswa was arrested at the Borno Express Motor Park on Aug. 4.
Umar who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) said the suspect was arrested by the police in Maiduguri with two abducted Almajiri children and a two-year-old girl.
On how Heneswa stole the children, he said, “The suspect arrived Maiduguri on Aug. 3, and went straight to the Monday market where she saw some vulnerable children popularly known as “Almajiri” begging on the road.
“The suspect called one of the children and offered him N200.
“She then asked him to accompany her so that she can buy him some clothes.
“She then went back to the town in search of another victim,” he said.
He said that the suspect got to the Yan’ Nono at the Bulumkutu area where she stole another child belonging to Mrs. Amina Ayuba, a local fresh milk seller.
When she arrived at the motor park, she requested a vehicle going to Lagos but members of the union told her it had already left.
She then begged for a place to stay before the next day.
“Again, she went out and picked the third child.
“However, luck had run out on her when she decided to take one of the kids to a local restaurant to get some food,” he said.
He said that a commercial driver operating on the Abuja line at the motor park became suspicious of the way the suspect was behaving and alerted the security and surveillance team at the motor park.
The CP said Heneswa was arrested and handed over to the Police for Investigation.
According to him, the woman confessed that she was planning to take the children to Lagos.
Umar said that the suspect alongside her accomplices may be said to have been in the business of buying and selling children for some time before the long hand of the law caught up with her.
Speaking to NAN in police custody, Heneswa said:” honestly, this is the first time I am doing this.
“I have never done this before. A woman in Lagos introduced me to this.
”I also have a nurse who was assisting me in the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital,” she said. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
