{"id":156448,"date":"2019-09-30T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=156448"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T14:34:00","slug":"police-handed-over-190-children-to-us-not-300-says-kaduna-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=156448","title":{"rendered":"Police Handed Over 190 Children To Us, Not 300, Says Kaduna State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Police-Handed-Over-190-Children-To-Us-Not-300-Says-Kaduna-State-Government.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna State government has refuted claims by the police that 300<br \/>\nchildren rescued from a \u2018rehabilitation centre\u2019 at Rigasa in Kaduna,<br \/>\nwere handed over to the government.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman in the state, Yakubu Sabo, told News Agency of<br \/>\nNigeria that the over 300 inmates were handed over to the state<br \/>\ngovernment.<\/p>\n<p>Denouncing the claim, the Commissioner for Human Services and Social<br \/>\nDevelopment in Kaduna state, Hafsat Baba, on Sunday told Daily Trust<br \/>\nthat the ministry received only 190 children, not 300.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that among the children handed over to her on Saturday<br \/>\nwere 77 children and 113 adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, the police handed over 190 children evacuated from the &#8216;school&#8217;<br \/>\nto us and 77 are children while 113 are adults. We conducted a<br \/>\nheadcount after receiving them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also did documentation before handing them over to their parents<br \/>\nwho were at the venue to receive them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner also added that two of the children were from Burkina<br \/>\nFaso and Cameroon, adding that the ministry had informed the<br \/>\nimmigration service about it.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State government has refuted claims by the police that 300 children rescued from a \u2018rehabilitation centre\u2019 at Rigasa in Kaduna, were handed over to the government. The police spokesman in the state, Yakubu Sabo, told News Agency of Nigeria that the over 300 inmates were handed over to the state government. Denouncing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[27,30,4866,11057,2176],"class_list":["post-156448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-27","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-elrufai-2","tag-nigerian-police-force"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}