Police intercept two trucks with 145 under-age children in Plateau

Plateau State Police Command, yesterday, said it intercepted two trucks conveying 145 children, aged between four and eight, from Bauchi and Jigawa states.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Terna Tyopev, in a statement in Jos, said the children were to be sent to Plateau, Kaduna and Nasarawa states.
He said: “Our investigation has revealed that these children, who are all male, were to be taken to places that even co-ordinators of their movement did not even know. Police is liaising with the Plateau State chapter of Jama’atul Nasril Islam, JNI and other stakeholders to establish contact with the two states government for the return of the children to their parents.”
He added that those behind the action would soon be charged to court to serve as a deterrent to others because “this trend, if not checked, will cause embarrassment to Plateau State, north central and the nation.”