Mr. Umar Suleiman, whose daughter, Khadija, was abducted in
the Kuje area of the Federal Capital Territory on November 19, 2016, has
claimed that the two-year-old is being kept somewhere in Kano.
Suleiman, while speaking to Northern City News on the
telephone on Monday, said he had confirmed that a girl, whose body was found
under a bridge in the Gwagwalada area of the FCT two weeks after the abduction,
was not his daughter.
He stated that the body was that of another girl abducted
alongside his daughter.
Suleiman said, “I was there; I saw the girl’s remains; she
was not my daughter. She is still missing. The woman (abductor) stole two
children and the girl dumped under the bridge was a girl wearing diaper. My
daughter stopped wearing diaper a long time ago. That day, she stole two
children and one of them was on her back. I believe it was the small girl on
her back that her remains were seen.”
Suleiman told our correspondent that indications had emerged
that his daughter was one of the children abducted by a syndicate in Abuja and
moved to Kano.
He said, “To be sincere, my daughter is still alive and the
people (abductors) are keeping her because of the publicity. I suspect that
they are keeping her, giving her food and not allowing her to go out.
“I don’t know if you have anybody in Kano because in Kano
children get missing every week, at least, three to five children. I am looking
at the possibility that the syndicate may have infiltrated Abuja. It is not
only my daughter who is missing in Abuja.”
When asked how he arrived at the conclusion, Suleiman
replied, “I have the feeling that Kano is where they are keeping my daughter. I
don’t know the specific place but that is where my daughter is.”
The father, who had said he was not satisfied with the
police investigation into the case, said he had involved the Department of
State Services in the efforts to rescue his daughter.
“I went to the DSS; I even saw the Director of FCT Command.
Anytime I go to his office, it does not take five minutes for me to see him.
But whenever I call him for updates, he always tells me that those guys
(kidnappers) are members of a syndicate and they (DSS) had not been able to make any headway
but they will continue to work on it,” he stated.
Suleiman alleged that the police asked for money to investigate
his daughter’s abduction.
“The first time the case was transferred to SARS, they were
asking for a huge sum of money for investigations. Somebody in Lagos directed
me to the CIB Command in Area 6 (Abuja). Less than one week after I reported
the case to CIB, they were able to make arrests. I was with SARS when they were
investigating the case but they did not do anything,” he said.
When asked if the police demanded money for investigations,
the FCT police spokesman, Manzah Anjuguri, denied this, saying Suleiman did not
lodge any complaint when he met with him shortly after his daughter was
abducted.
He promised to find out the status of the probe into
Khadijah’s abduction, but he had yet to get back with his findings as of the
time of filing this report.
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