The Taraba State Police Command has arrested two women for allegedly abducting three children in Jalingo and attempting to traffic them to Adamawa State.
It was gathered that the suspects, from a South-East state, were arrested at a filling station while travelling in a commercial vehicle with the three girls.
The driver became suspicious because the girls did not resemble the women and alerted members of his union. The union members then informed the police, leading to the arrest.
Sources said the suspects, both single, had rented a room in the same compound where the parents of the girls live about two weeks ago.
On Thursday morning, the women allegedly deceived the mothers of the girls by asking to take the children to the market. Instead, they took them to a motor park in Jalingo and chartered a vehicle to Adamawa.
At the police station, the women allegedly admitted to taking the girls from the compound after deceiving their mothers.
The girls, identified as Ummul Shuaibu, Ummul Baba Gasal and Amina Abubakar, are between five and six years old.
Abubakar Kwalli, father of one of the girls, told Daily Trust that he and the fathers of the other two children were invited to the Taraba State Police Command headquarters.
“We were surprised to see our children at the police headquarters. We were asked to identify them, which we did, but we were directed to bring our wives to further identify the children before they would be released to us,” he said.
Police said investigations are ongoing.
