Kaduna State police command on Saturday raided another Youth Rehabilitation Centre popularly called Malam Niga’s rehabilitation Centre and evacuated 147 inmates at Rigasa community of Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state.
The police stormed the centre located at Kwanar Gurguwa in the community in the early hours and took away the inmates to Mando camp.
Governor Nasir El’rufai was said to be at the venue during the raid and the founder of the Centre, Lawal Yusuf Muduru was arrested and taken away by the police for questioning.
A visit to the State Pilgrims Hajj Camp at Mando where the inmates are kept under the care of the state ministry for Human Services and Social Development reported that policemen were stationed at the camp as details of the inmates were taken by officials of the ministry.
Commissioner for Human Services and Social Development, Hafsat Baba, who was at the camp said that 22 inmates were females while four were foreigners.
She explained, “The number of inmates evacuated from the centre were 147 in total, among them are 22 females while four are foreigners from Niger and Cameroon. We also have underage among the inmates and those who are mentally unstable. We have contacted a psychiatric doctor who will come to examine them.”
She added that details of the inmates were taken, stressing that they are waiting for directives from the state government on the next line of action.
We gathered that majority of the inmates are drug addicts who were taken to the centre for rehabilitation and also to learn skill acquisition such as carpentry, welding, computer training, among others.
