Operatives of the Kano State Police Command have rescued 47 people from an illegal rehabilitation centre.
The victims all males were between the ages of 12 – 30.
They regained freedom on Thursday following a raid of the illegal facility at ‘Yar Akwa community of Unguwa Uku district in Tarauni Local Government Area of the state.
Police Public Relations Officer in Kano, Haruna Kiyawa who confirmed the rescue said two of the operators of the facility were also arrested during the raid.
Four of the victims who were in chains with varying degrees of injury have been taken to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital in Kano for treatment, the command’s spokesman said.
One of the inmates who hailed from Lagos State decried the humiliating condition they were subjected to at the centre.
