The police in Kaduna in central Nigeria have uncovered a house in Rigasa harbouring no fewer than 300 children, chained on the legs and starving.
Some of the children are between the age of five and ten, TVC News has reported.
The big surprise was that the children are manacled, possibly to ensure that they do not escape.
According to the report, the people manning the house of horror claim it’s an Islamic rehabilitation centre.
The detained children said they were forced to fast, and that they were were being sexually abused.
The police suspected that the children may be undergoing some form of indoctrination.
All the children have been moved, the report said.
TVC did not state whether the minders of the abused and starving children have been arrested.
Later at a press conference, the police expatiated on their shock find.
The victims, according to the police, are from Burkina Faso, Mali and other African countries.
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Bello Hamza, one of the victims, said he was supposed to be pursuing a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics in South Africa, when his family members brought him to the centre, three months ago.
He told journalists that he was tricked into the centre by his family members.
Hamza said he spent three months in chains.
“I got admission to study Applied Mathematics, but here I am chained. They claim to be teaching us Quran and Islam but they do a lot of things here. They subject the younger ones to homosexuality.
