Daura: Police discover another rehabilitation centre, arrest cleric

The Katsina State police has on Monday arrested a 78 year-old cleric, Mallam Bello Maialmajri, and owner of a spiritual rehabilitation centre in Daura where inmates were kept and subjected to inhuman conditions.

The State Commissioner of Police, Sanusi Buba, led team discovered over 60 inmates who were in terrible conditions with two men arrested.

The centre is located at Nasarawa quarters, the Sabongari area in Daura.

The Commissioner, after going through the whole premises including where inmates sleep and perform chores, ordered the Divisional Police officer for Daura, Asp M.O.Wakili, and the police team from the town to take over the premises and ensure the security of the inmates.

Buba  said, the operation was carried out based on information and that the inmates are from different part of the country including  Niger Republic.

“We learnt that the inmates here are over three hundred and because of the sordid and inhuman treatments they are being subjected to, the inmates revolted yesterday (Sunday). Some of the inmates escaped while these ones you are seeing now, about sixty of them stayed back”.

The inmates also disclosed that they were being subjected to  homosexual acts. shall get all of them and they would face the full wrath of the law.

One of the inmates Abubakar Saminu a 16 year old said his parents brought him to the centre because he was always stealing, and believing that he will be cured.