Niger: Police arrest two women over alleged child trafficking, rescue four children

The Niger State Police Command has arrested 2 women implicit alleged kid trafficking and suspected ritual-related activities, rescuing 4 children betwixt the ages of 4 and 7 successful Suleja, Suleja section authorities country of the state.

Police Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, said the suspects were apprehended pursuing a credible intelligence-led cognition by operatives of the State Intelligence Department connected June 3, 2026.

He identified the suspects arsenic Mrs Promise Chukwudi, 68, of Suleja and Mrs Suzanna Onojekwo, 62, of Church Road, Suleja, wherever 1 of the rescued children was found.

According to Abiodun, the suspects claimed the children were handed implicit to them by their parents from Karim-Lamido successful Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State betwixt November 2025 and February 2026 for adoption.

He explained that Chukwudi besides told investigators that she antecedently operated Precious Promise Nursery, Primary and Orphanage Home successful 2022 earlier resuming operations successful November 2025.

She further claimed to beryllium a licensed herbal aesculapian practitioner who provides accepted attraction for ailments.

However, the constabulary said investigations uncovered contradictions successful the suspects’ claims aft antithetic parents from Abuja, Nasarawa and Benue states came guardant to assertion the rescued children.

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