Salisu Umar who has been nabbed by police locked his 16-year-old son Sadiku Umar in a cage for two years in Daura Katsina State.

Neighbours revealed that the wicked father who feeds the boy like a “dog” confined him when he was 14 years old. Members of Save the Children International (SCI), an NGO alerted the police the execute the boy’s rescue when they were being informed.

Aminu Gambo, an agent of SCI said;

 “the man told the police that he decided to put the boy in a cage because there was no longer space for him in the two-room apartment housing the entire family of 15 including his 12 other children.

He was detained at the police station in Daura for a day and then moved to the police headquarters in Katsina and later released on the condition that he would no longer subject the boy to such inhuman treatment.”