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Kaduna Man Locked Up For 20 Years Identified, Police Invite Five Persons

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The Police Command  Kaduna State has identified the 67 year old man locked up for 20 years in Kaduna as Mr Ibrahim Ado even as it affirmed that it had invited five persons to help it in the investigations into the matter.

The Command Public Relations Officers, DSP Mohammed Jalige, stated these at the scene of the alleged offence.

GWG.NG reports that the  rescued man, Mr Ibrahim Ado, was allegedly locked up in a room in Bayajidda/Ibrahim Taiwo  road in Kaduna North Local government Area was rescued on Wednesday.

Jalige told newsmen that the incident was  reported to the Police  community health workers who were on duty in the afternoon at Bayajidda by Ibrahim Taiwo road in Kaduna.

According to him, upon receipt of the information, the Commissioner of Police, Kaduna Command ordered that the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the area should lead operatives to the scene and bring out the man.

He said the Commissioner also ordered that they should find out from the people around the area why the man was kept in a room for so long.

He said that he had been locked up in the room for almost 20 years, where he ate, urinated and did everything without taken care of.

“When we went to the scene, we found the man naked, we gave him clothes to wear and brought him out and took him to hospital for medical evaluation,” he said.

Jalige further said that the Kaduna Comissioner of Police, Yekini Ayoku, also ordered for a full scale investigation to be carried out to unravel the true position and cause of the inhuman treatment to the elderly man.

He noted  that investigations had commenced by the DPO Magajin Gari Police Division, and would reveal the outcome.

He said they found about five people in the area who were assisting them in the investigation process.

“We were made to understand that the man had children and a wife who were nowhere to be found, the people we met in the compound and the neighboring houses, we believe will assist us in getting the true position of the whole scenario.”

“We will work together with the medical doctors to obtain their report on the man’s health status, what matters now is to get the man alive and make him comfortable, and we have succeeded in doing that,”Jalige said of the police determination to ensure justice over the case of the man locked up for 20 years in the heart of Kaduna. (NAN)

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