Police arrest father for allegedly chaining 11-yr-old boy for 2 years

The police command in Kebbi has arrested one Aliyu Umar, father of the 12-year-old boy chained for two years in an animal stall in Badariya area of Birnin Kebbi local government.

The command’s public relations officer, Mr Nafi’u Abubakar told newsmen that the father said the boy was suffering from an ailment

Abubakar revealed that the father had admitted to the police that he tied up the boy with a rope in view of his inability to sustain his medication.

The police spokesman said the father had claimed that he had taken the boy to native doctors for medication up to the extent of selling some of his properties, but all in vain.