The police in Kaduna on Thursday raided a home with over 300 people in
Rigasa in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The cops freed about 300 people who were chained in the house, including
children.
They were said to be from Burkina Faso, Mali and other African countries,
according to the force.
The children were said to have confessed to being abused homosexually.
Some of the others were said to have been subjected to daily recitation of
the Holy Quran and prayers with torture.
According to Bello Hamza, a 42-year-old inmate, he was tricked to the
centre by his family who are interested in taking “over my share of our
inheritance.” “I have spent three months here. I am supposed to be pursuing my
Masters at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
I have spent three months here with chains on my legs. “They claim to be
teaching us Quran and Islam, but they do a lot of things here. “They subject
the younger ones to homosexuality.
They give us very poor food and we only eat twice a day — 11:00am and
10:00pm.
The proprietor of the centre called Malam said all they did in the centre
was the teaching of Islam.
The Kaduna State Commissioner for Police, Ali Janga, confirmed the
incident.