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Kaduna ‘torture house’ 2: Some have been in chains for 8 years – Commissioner

Kaduna 'torture house' 2: Some have been in chains for 8 years - Commissioner
Kaduna 'torture house' 2: Some have been in chains for 8 years - Commissioner


Some of the rescued inmates of Nigga Rehabilitation and Skill Acquisition Centre, Rigasa in Igabi local government area of Kaduna State, have been in chains for eight years, Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Hafsat Baba hinted Sunday evening.
The center, located in Rigasa, the largest community in Kaduna State, was lately in public sphere after the State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai alongside security men paid an unscheduled visit to the center to rescue, evacuate 147 inmates and shut it down on Saturday.


Speaking with this correspondent via a telephone call, the Commissioner said, her ministry was trying to profile them according to their states as the majority of them were not from Kaduna State.
She also said, four of them were from neighboring countries of Cameroon and Republic of Niger – while some have been reunited with their families.  
According to the Commissioner, “some of their families have come for them. We are trying to segregate them according to their states because the majority of them are not from Kaduna State.
“There are four foreigners among them; two from Cameroon and two from the Niger Republic.

“We have been in and out of hospitals. We have conducted an HIV test for all of them. We have found those that are positive whom we have to link up with clinics.

“Those that were sexually assaulted are giving their statements to the police.
“All in all, they are doing fine but we have some with mental issues and we have taken them to the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Barnawa, Kaduna, for medication while the sick ones were taken to Barrau Dikko Specialist Hospital. None of them is in admission for now.
Of cause, they have been under torture. They were all in chains. We have to call on the welder to come and remove the chains in their legs. Some of them have been in chains for eight years. They just removed the chains this afternoon,” she said.


On why it took the state government this long before taken action after several media reports she said,

“people have been talking about the center and they started asking questions after the one police raided a few weeks ago. So, the governor just paid an unscheduled visit to the place yesterday and shut it down.”

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