Police detain grandmother for battering granddaughter
The Niger State Child Rights Agency and Police has arrested a grandmother and two others for battering an eight-year-old girl in Minna.
The Nation learned that the grandmother identified as Safiya Azumi who lives in the Daru Salam community in the Kpakungun area of Minna was in the habit of beating the little girl and locking her inside a room to starve her for several days.
The acting director general of the agency, Mallam Suleiman Shehu, was alerted by neighbours about the situation on Friday, November 10, and he mobilized some staff to rescue the victim.
The girl was rescued with several dislocations on her hands and several bruises on her body and face.
The Agency called the State Criminal Investigation Department where the suspects were taken to the GRA police station where they were detained while the victim was taken to Minna General Hospital for medical treatment where her dislocated hand was adjusted.
Speaking to the victim at the hospital, she identified the woman whom she stayed with as her maternal grandmother and the other two people as her aunt whom she called Tani, and her husband whom she identified as Ndagi Bala.
She stated that the three individuals acquired her from her mother, expressing confusion over why she faced mistreatment despite consistently putting forth her best effort to complete any assigned task.
