Baby stolen from Niger community resurfaces in Kano

2 more children missing from same community   A four months old baby stolen from Dakwa, a town in Tafa council of Niger State, has been found in Kano.  The mother of the baby, Fatima Kabir, told Daily Trust in last Friday’s edition about how the baby, named Samhat, got missing while playing with her elder […]

• 2 more children missing from same community

 

A four months old baby stolen from Dakwa, a town in Tafa council of Niger State, has been found in Kano. 

The mother of the baby, Fatima Kabir, told Daily Trust in last Friday’s edition about how the baby, named Samhat, got missing while playing with her elder sibling around their home about a month ago.

Fatima left the town for Kano on Thursday after she was alerted about a Facebook post with the baby’s photo, informing of the baby’s discovery in the commercial city. 

A friend of her husband, Ado Musa, while speaking to Daily Trust on Sunday, said their happiness was, however, cut short as a village head in Kano, in whose custody the baby has been since she was discovered, has refused to hand her over to the mother.

The district head of Dakwa, Alhaji Alhassan Musa, had personally spoken over the phone to a party involved in the case in Kano in the presence of our reporter yesterday but said the new dimension was coming after somebody there also claimed ownership of the baby. 

The Dakwa district head had further said the police in Kano have waded into the issue and it was agreed that a DNA test would be conducted in respect of the baby and the two parties that are claiming her. 

Meanwhile, two more children went missing from the same Dakwa town on Wednesday evening. The children – Ahmad Mustafa, 5, and Abdurrahman Umar, also 5, got missing while on their way back home, after attending the Muslim sunset prayer in their neighbourhood, located at Barde Street, Dakwa.

When contacted, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Sabon-Wuse, ASP Abdullateef Biodun, confirmed the case of the missing baby’s discovery in Kano. He, however, said he was unaware of the recent abduction of two children, promising to reach out to the Officer in Charge OC, at the community.