By Desire Emmanuel
A man who was found with four stolen children and arrested by men of the Niger State Police Command has disclosed that he was asked to bring them by a woman for a fee.
The state police command announced the arrest in a statement on Wednesday, November 19, saying the man, Usman Adamu, aged 40 years, was found with the children, whose ages ranged from five to eleven, around Angwan-Katampe on November 16 around 2:40 p.m.
According to the command, police operatives attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters of the command received intelligence report indicating that the man was going away with the four children.
The operatives, on getting to the scene, found him in the midst of some residents who formed a mob and were about to lynch him. However, he was rescued from the mob and taken to the station.
During his interrogation, he was said to have told the operatives that a yet-to-be identified woman requested him to get the children for her with a promise to pay him handsomely.
He was said to have given more useful information to the police operatives while the case has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID for further interrogation.
While the children had been reunited with their parents, efforts are being intensified to arrest the woman who requested for the children.
