Following the reported case of nine missing children between ages five and 15 in Mado village of Tudun Wada in Jos North of Plateau State. A suspect, Dickson Andrew Ali, aged 27 has been arrested for allegedly stealing children in the village.
Newsmen learned that the incident happened at about 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday.
Dickson was allegedly exposed through a call he made to an accomplice before the security personnel was alerted.
The suspect confessed to having stolen nine children together with his accomplice while he killed one of the victims himself. According to the suspect, he removed the victim’s body parts and sold the parts to one Alhaji in Nasarawa State.
“I sold each child at the cost of N300,000,” he added.
In a recent development, the Plateau State Police Command has arrested 9 suspected persons for child trafficking; cultists, and armed robbery who are terrorizing innocent citizens in the state.
State Police Commissioner, CP Bartholomew Onyeka disclosed this on Friday in Jos while parading the suspects who were arrested in different locations in Plateau state for various crimes.
He explained that the suspects were arrested with life-threatening rifles, which can unleash terror on residents at any slide provocation.
He said, “On 7 September 2022, while acting on a tip-off that two suspected children traffickers were about to be lynched by irate youths of Tudun Wada community, patrol team led by Divisional Police Officer of ‘A’ Division, CSP Obinna Simeon immediately move to the scene and rescued the suspects.
“The suspects are Dickson Andrew Ali, aged 27, and Mathew Dakum, aged 34, both male of Tudun Wada, Jos. On interrogation, the suspects confessed that sometime in the month of July 2022 they were contracted by one Jennifer to be abducting and sending children to an orphanage home in Abuja for purpose of attracting funds from an NGO.
He said efforts are on to arrest the said Jennifer and the owner of the suspected illegal orphanage home, Abuja.
CP Onyeka stated further, “On 4 September 2022 while acting on credible information from an impeccable source, police operatives attached to ‘A’ Division of the Command arrested two suspected Arrow cultists namely; Mathew Ayuba 19, of Alheri community, Jos, and one Samuel Ngbede, aged 25 of Jenta Makeri, Jos.
“The duo that is on the wanted list of the police were arrested at Kabong, Gada-biu in an attempt to launch an attack on the community. Exhibits recovered from the suspects upon instant search include one locally made pistol. The police have already launched an aggressive manhunt for other members of the gang still at large.”
CP Onyeka said that one Lukeman Suleiman was arrested for killing his son, Nazif Ridwan after physical combat that culminated in the death of the son.
He said that Suleiman used a piece of wooden plank and hit his son severally on his head and that the son died after rushing him to the hospital.
