A 37-year-old man, Abubakar Talba, from Hausari Dandal in Borno State, has been arrested by the Bauchi State Police Command for the alleged abduction of two Almajiri boys and committing sodomy with them.

The Almajiri boys were said to have been abducted by a suspect from Katsina State pretending to be a Qur’anic teacher.

The Command PPRO, SP Ahmed Wakili, stated in a statement on Monday that the arrest was effected by the Gamawa Division of the Police while responding to a complaint from the community regarding his ill-treatment of the boys under the guise of running a Quranic school.

The PPRO added that during interrogation, the suspect confessed that he had attended a Quranic school in Fagge, saying that he met one of his victims at the BATA area in Fagge LGA of Kano State.

The victim, identified as Masaud Barau, 12 years old, from Gamniya village in the Niger Republic, was brought to a Quranic school in Rijiyar Lemo, Kano State.

The suspect lured him from Kano to Daura under the pretence that he would support him to start a business, and on reaching Daura, the suspect encountered the second victim, identified as Ibrahim Jabiru, 13 years old, from Mai Mujiya village in Katsina state.

He was brought to Quranic school at ‘Tsangayar Malam Usman’ in Daura under the pretence of providing capital to start selling touch lights and batteries.

From Daura, he moved the two boys to Danbatta, where he began abusing one of the boys inside a mosque.

After spending the night in Danbatta, he proceeded to Udubo Village in Bauchi State, where he continued to abuse the victim.

The Bauchi State Police Command, under the leadership of CP Auwal Musa Mohammed, stated that it will charge the suspect to court after the investigation is completed.

Similarly, the command implored members of the public to provide useful information that could help locate the parents or guardians of the victims. (Nigerian Tribune)

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