The police on Wednesday rescued a 67-year-old man locked up in a room for over 20 years in Kaduna.
It is reported that the man was found n@ked and locked up in a room at a house on Bayajidda road in Kaduna.
Residents of the building fled when a police team arrived at the house.
The spokesperson of the police command in Kaduna State, Mohammed Jalige, told journalists that a thorough investigation would be conducted on the matter.
Mr Jalige said the victim, Ibrahim Ado, was first discovered by some environmental health officers who were in the house on official duty. “They reported to the Magajin Gari Police Division, and the Commissioner of Police directed personnel to evacuate the victim. He also directed for a full-scale investigation of the matter to unravel the circumstances surrounding the issue and why the man was kept in isolation for this long,” he added.
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Mr Jalige noted that the victim had been taken to the hospital for medical evaluation. However according to the spokesman of the environmental agency,, who pleaded for anonymity in a chat with Nigerian Tribune said, “Today we came to this house in search of beverages that were usually kept in residential houses without proper storage facilities when we saw a naked man locked up in a room.
We found that he was in an uncomfortable position. The odour coming out from the room was unbearable. Later, we broke the room and brought him out. He was behaving like an animal. It was then we learnt that he was kept in the room for twenty years. We also found out he was fed in the room. He urinates and passed his fa€ces in the same room.
