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Boy Subjected To Harsh Treatment Rescued In Borno State
A boy subjected to harsh, severe beating, torture and hunger strike in Maiduguri, Borno State, has been rescued by rights activists.
The boy was subjected to the inhumane and dehumanizing treatment by his Stepmother.
One of the activists, who rescued the boy, said the case had been taken over by the Borno state office of the National Human Rights Commission.
The boy’s tribulations started after his father divorced his mother.
He was regularly subjected him to severe beating and starvation by the Stepmother in Borno State.
One of the Activist made it know that Officials of the National Human Rights Commission has reportedly taken up the matter.
Cases like this seem to the rampant as this isn’t the first case in the Northern part of the country, Three people have been rescued in the last two weeks after they were locked up in Kano’s different locations by their families.
A 32-year-old man, Ahmad Aliyu, was locked inside a room by his father, Stepmother, for over seven years in Borno state was also rescued by the police in Kano.
He was rescued on Thursday evening by police and some human rights groups at Farawa Babban Layi in Mariri quarters of Kumbotso Local Government Area in Kano metropolis.
The victim was chained and caged after he was accused of drug abuse by his parents.
Murtala Muhammad, a 55-year-old man, was rescued by the police after being locked up in a room by his father for 30 years.
Muhammad, a resident of Kofar Fada in Rogo Local Government Area of Kano State, was rescued by the police and Human Rights Network on Thursday.
The police also rescued an unidentified 32-year-old man after being locked up in a room by his father at Sheka neighbourhood in Kano for 15 years.
The victim was said to have been chained and caged for an undisclosed reason by his parents (Borno state)
