Nigerian president vows crackdown on abusive Islamic schools after second raid
Desmond Mgboh
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria’s president on Tuesday ordered a crackdown on abuse at Islamic schools, after a second police raid in less than a month revealed men and boys subjected to beatings, abuse and squalid conditions.
Nearly 300 had been held captive at a school in the Daura area of Katsina, the home town of President Muhammadu Buhari, where police said they discovered “inhuman and degrading treatment†following a raid on Monday to free the remaining students.
Late last month, police freed hundreds from similarly degrading conditions in neighboring Kaduna state.
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They busted another one of those "camps", torture camps, slave camps, I don't know. This 2nd bust was not as big as the prior one about 2 weeks ago.
More than 60 men and boys freed from 'inhumane' Islamic school, police say
By Bukola Adebayo, CNN October 15, 2019
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Police in Nigeria have rescued 67 men and boys who were subjected to "inhumane and degrading treatments" at an Islamic school in the northern state of Katsina, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
The religious school, which also served as a rehabilitation center, was run by a 78-year-old Muslim cleric in Daura, the birthplace of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari.
Authorities visited the school on Monday, a day after students protested about their welfare, tipping off the police about the conditions in the facility, Katsina police state spokesman Isah Gambo told CNN.
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