Abdullahi Muhammad, a 7-year-old boy stolen from Dakwa town in the Bwari Area Council of the FCT, has been reunited with his family, eight months after the incident.
He was allegedly abducted by individuals suspected to be human traffickers
Abuja Metro learned that Abdullahi was brought back to Abuja on Monday by ACC Vanger Scholastica, the Area Commander of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in charge of the Aba Zone in Abia State.
ACC Scholastica handed the boy over to his mother at the NSCDC national headquarters in Abuja. She narrated how the boy was rescued in the presence of our reporter, who had initially reported the incident on July 16.
“He was taken to my office by a colleague who had sighted him off the road with no specific direction of where to go on May 18,” ACC Scholastica explained.
She added, “The boy couldn’t communicate in any language for a long time until recently when he disclosed his name as Abdul and his mother’s name as Hauwa’u. He told us that a man in his community in Abuja had offered to help him cross a road, only to take him to an unknown location from where he was taken to Aba town.”
The NSCDC official further stated that all efforts to uncover the boy’s origin, even after informing the chairman of the orphanage homes association in the state, were unsuccessful.
She added, “Thereafter, the leaders of the northern Nigeria community residing in the town were contacted about two weeks ago, and he, in turn, relayed the information on various social media platforms.”
Also speaking, the boy’s mother, Hauwa’u Yakubu, who runs a restaurant in Dakwa town in Abuja, said Abdullahi went missing in November 2024 after visiting a public convenience store close to her shop.
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