Rivers police have rescued 15 kidnapped children and arrested a fake reverend sister.
Glamtush reports that Police operatives in Rivers State have rescued 15 children kidnapped from different parts of Port Harcourt and its environs.
This online newspaper gathered that the police also arrested a fake reverend sister who is among the leaders of the criminal group abducting the children.
The state Commissioner of Police, Friday Eboka, disclosed this on Tuesday at a press conference in Port Harcourt.
The fake reverend sister is expected to be charged to court soon.
The CP said the suspect would be charged to court, adding that investigations are ongoing as some of the children have been reunited with their parents
Cases such as the one in Rivers are not new in Nigeria. In July, scores of children were discovered in an underground apartment of a church in the Valentino Area of Ondo town, Ondo State.
This online platform recalls that over 40 children were kidnapped and kept in the underground apartment of the church.
Videos of the incident went viral at the time, as the children were seen in a patrol vehicle of police who moved them to the station.