Police in Kano state have rescued a 35-year-old man who was allegedly held captive by his father for 15 years at Skeka quarters within Kano metropolis.
According to Daily Independent, detectives attached to the Kano state Headquaters of the state Command, Bompai rescued the man named Ibrahim Lawan on Sunday morning, August 16.
He is said to be the son of an Imam, Malam Lawan of Sheka, Unguwar Fulani adjacent Gidan Mai Unguwa Bello.
The rescue operation conducted by the State Police Commissioner, Habu Sani alongside the top senior officers was a product of an established intelligence.
Mallam Lawan, the biological father of the victim of unlawful incarceration was reportedly not at home when the security agents visited the location.
In a short video that has been in circulation on social media, Lawan was evacuated by two health workers into a waiting ambulance to Mallam Aminu Kano Hospital for medical attention.
Lawan, who has been in incarceration since age 20, has lost vigour and the vitality of an healthy man as he looked frail and sick.
He is the second person to be rescued by the Police in Kano state within that last 72 hours in the state.
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See some photos and video from the rescue operation below;
