INCREDIBLE: Father Locks Son In Cage For Four Years
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A non-governmental organisation, Save the Children International (SCI), has rescued a 16-year-old boy, Sadiqu Daura, who was physically caged for four years by his father, Salisu Umar for about Four years, at his house in Duara, Katsina State.
It story was told that his odeal started after the death his mother six years ago.
Sadiqu who is said to be physically challenged, was then taken to his paternal grandmother, who also died thereafter.
The change in fate caused Sadiqu to be brought back to his father’s house and was put inside a cage as a result of his condition.
He was fed like a dog during the period until last week when SCI intervened and reported the matter to the police.
According to an SCI agent in Daura, Aminu Gambo, Salisu, his father told the police that he decided to put the boy in a cage because there was no longer space for him in the two-room apartment housing the entire family of 15 including his 12 other children.
“He was detained at the police station in Daura for a day and then moved to the police headquarters in Katsina and later released on the condition that he will no longer subject the boy to such inhuman treatment.
“SCI is working to see how it can accommodate Sadiqu under its Reaching and Empowering Adolescents to make informed choices for their health programme being implemented in Zamfara, Katsina and Gombe states”, he said.
