By Marie-Therese Nanlong

The 145 trafficked children being ferried in two trucks that were intercepted in Jos, Plateau State capital a week ago, have been returned to Bauchi State, where majority of them were picked from.

Representatives of the Plateau State Police Command, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, and that of the state chapter of Jama’atul Nasril Islam, JNI, accompanied the children to Bauchi, where they will be handed over to the state government.

However, Vanguard gathered that some parents of the children, who made efforts to get the children from police custody, were arrested and charged along with the three Mallams and two drivers, who were with the children in the trucks