ATTENTION: THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, EDO STATE

 

Dozens of street and other vulnerable children were seen yesterday in a viral video being badly manhandled and tortured by grown adults in Benin Edo State, Nigerian.

 

The children who were also being interrogated by these adults bear multiple injuries and some were hung with tires around their necks with apparent threat to set them ablaze because they were caught in some nefarious activities including phone theft and other pilferage

 

Their interrogation with these adults significantly indicated that the interrogators believed that the children have potential capabilities such as witchcraft and sorcery power to disappear and reappear at will which is a common superstitious belief in Nigerian.

 

The Child’s Rights and Rehabilitation Network (CRARN) frowns at the manner in which these minors were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatments without recourse to handing over them to the appropriate authorities. It is quite apparent that the parents of these children neglected them and have fallen short of their responsibilities thereby exposing them to abuse and torture as a result of looking for a way to fending themselves.

 

We are calling on the Commissioner of Police Edo Edo State to

 

investigate the vicious treatment of these children by adults and know if they are still alive

Arrest their parents and bring them to justice for child abandonment and neglect.

Ensure that the government provides a shelter for the children and give them skills acquisition training and education to make useful citizens.

 

CRARN will be following up on this issue in a subsequent bulletin.

 

Sam Ikpe Itauma

 

President/CEO of CRARN 

www.CRARN.net

Ps: See link of the video: https://fb.watch/xfWFhP4kNL/?