KADUNA, Nigeria - More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday.
"This place is neither a rehab or an Islamic school because you can see it for yourselves," Kaduna state's police commissioner, Ali Janga, told reporters."The children gathered here are from all over the country... some of them were even chained. They were used, dehumanized, you can see it yourself."
"They said my lifestyle has changed - I've become a Christian, I've left the Islamic way of life," said Yusuf, who did not specify the nature of his relationship with the people who sent him to the center. The rescued children have been moved to a temporary camp at a stadium in Kaduna, and would later be moved to another camp in a suburb of the city while attempts were made to find their parents, police said.Islamic schools, known as Almajiris, are common across the mostly Muslim north of Nigeria - a country that is roughly evenly split between followers of Christianity and Islam.
You forgot to mention it was from a certain religion...
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