NAPTIP board chairman says not aware agency’s DG unqualified
The law establishing the anti-trafficking agency mandates whoever would be appointed as its director-general to be from the directorate cadre of the public service.
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The chairman of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Abubakar Gotomo, said he believes the right thing must have been done by appointing Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim as the agency’s director-general.
When asked if he was aware Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim is unqualified for the position she occupies, he said: “I do not know she is not qualified.”
“The government must have made the right decision. The recommendation is made by the honourable minister, and I want to believe that the right thing must have been done,” he told PREMIUM TIMES when asked if he was worried about the director-general not being qualified for the top job.
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The police in Kano on Wednesday paraded a 23-year-old widow, Maryam Muhammad, and three other suspected kidnappers, allegedly operating in Kano and Zamfara states.
Ms Muhammad is from Butsa village in Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The police said her husband was a notorious cattle rustler who had been killed while stealing cows.
Parading the suspects, the police spokesperson in Kano, Abdullahi Haruna, said they were arrested on Friday at an apartment in Kano where they were holding a victim, Mohammed Sanusi.
Mr Haruna said the suspects had demanded N10 million ransom from Mr Sanusi’s parents when they were arrested.
According to the Kano State Police Command, Maryam, who is popularly known as Hajiya, was arrested by police operatives at Jaba quarters, Ungogo Local Government Area of the state while negotiating a ransom with the family of one of her captives on Tuesday, January 12.