Police uncover 300 persons in Kaduna illegal detention camp

A house with over three hundred people, most of who were chained has been unbundled in Rigasa community, Igabi local Government Area of Kaduna state, by personnel of the Nigeria Police.

The home named ‘Daru Imam Ahmad Bun Hambal’, which is operated under the guise of an Islamic school has among its inhabitants, children (all males) who disclosed that, they are being abused homosexually by both seniors and instructors.

Our Correspondent who was on the entourage of men of the Kaduna Police Command led by the Commissioner, Ali Aji Janga on raid of the home, observed that majority of the ‘inmates’ were chained on their both legs, while some were chained to electricity generator sets and vehicle alloy rims.

Some of the inmates who jubilated on arrival of the police team, showed newsmen scars of injuries sustained from torture in the hands of their instructors and seniors.

Interaction with the inmates also revealed that, some of them are from as far as African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana and others.

Speaking to newsmen, one of the inmates, Hassan Yusuf, a PhD holder in Energy Economics said he was dragged to the centre two years ago by his family, who accused him of converting to Christianity.

According to him, “I have been here for two years. I just found myself here one morning two years ago because, my extended family accused me of converting to Christianity, just because I spent 16years in the UK and married a British.

“For them, they think they are helping me because, since I became a Christian am supposed to die. But bringing me here according to them is to de-radicalize me instead of death.

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“Now, I am diabetic, I can’t access drugs and all the foods they five us here are carbohydrates.” He said.

Also Bello Hamza 42 years old another inmates said, he was tricked to the centre by his family who are interested in taking over my shared of our inheritance.

In his words: “I have spent three months here with chains on my legs. I am supposed to be pursuing my Masters in University Pretoria South Africa. I got admission to study Applied Mathematics, but here I am chained.

“They claim to be teaching us Quran and Islam, but they do a lot of things here. They subject the younger ones to homosexuality.

“This is supposed to be an Islamic centre, but trying to run away from here attracts severe punishment; they tie people and hang them to the ceiling for that, but engaging in homosexuality attracts no punishment.

“Within my short stay here, somebody had died as a result of torture. Others have died before my coming due to poor health and torture. They give us very poor food and we only eat twice a day; 11:00am and 10:00pm.

“They have denied me a lot of things here. I am a family man, I have responsibilities, but I am chained here not knowing what is happening to my family members.

CP Ali Aji Janga while briefing newsmen at the site said, “We received information that something is going on in this rehabilitation centre or Islamic center. So, I sent my DPO here to check what was going on. On getting here, we discovered that, this is neither a rehabilitation centre nor an Islamic school.

“You can see it yourself that, small children, some of whom are brought from neighbouring African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali and others and from across Nigeria. Most of them are even chained.

“These people are being used, dehumanized. You can see it yourself.

“The man who is operating this home claimed that, parents brought their children here for rehabilitation. But, from the look on things this is not a rehabilitation centre. No reasonable parent will bring his children to this place.

“So, we are going to investigate them and get to the root of the matter. We will find out the real motive behind this centre, and if they are found wanting they will be charged to court.

“But first, we are evacuating all the people from this place to our station and we will make announcement for parents to come and recover their children.” He said.

Meanwhile, the Proprietor of the centre simply identified as Malam said, all they do in the centre is teach people Islam.

According to him, “All those allegations of torture, dehumanization and homosexuality are false and mere allegations. We do nothing here other than teaching people Islam.

“They don’t do anything other than, recitation of Qur’an, pray and worship God. Those chained are the stubborn ones who attempt running away. Those who don’t attempt running away are not chained. Some were chained before and after settling down, they were freed.

“Most of them were brought by their parents from across the country and others from outside the country.” He said.

Meanwhile, at the end of the raid, the inmates were evacuated from the premises in about 15 Danfo buses to the Police headquarters.

Source: The Nation Newspapers