An influencer on X with over 50,000 followers, @AndyjnrUmaru, on Friday morning posted that the Kaduna police had rescued over 300 people in a house located in Rigasa community, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state, where the occupants were tortured and chained.

The X user wrote:

“Homosexual Dems: Police rescue over 300 people chained in a house in Kaduna,” the post read in part. “They teach us the Koran and abuse us homosexually. A house containing over three hundred people chained by their arms and legs has been discovered in Kaduna State.”

The X influencer also claimed that the occupants of the house were being used, dehumanised and tortured, while the children amongst them were subjected to homosexuality.

CLAIM: That over 300 people were recently rescued from a house in Rigasa, a community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna, where inmates were dehumanised and tortured.

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VERIFICATION: FIJ conducted a simple Google search with the keywords in the post to verify the claim. Google revealed several news reports published in 2019 by Premium Times, The Cable, Channels Television and others about the Kaduna police rescuing 300 people from a house they were tortured in.

Some of the headlines read: “Chained persons freed as police ‘rescue 300’ at religious centre in Kaduna“, “Police rescue over 300 children, others from ‘torture house’ in Kaduna” and “Modern Slavery: Police Rescue 300 ‘Tortured’ Persons In Kaduna.”

All the reports contained the exact contents as the post made by the X user on Friday. FIJ also discovered that the X user had copied some statements from The Cable’s reports on the issue verbatim, and posted them as his.

On Friday morning, FIJ called Mansir Hassan, the Kaduna Police PRO, to inquire if the event was recent.

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When FIJ narrated the event to the Kaduna PPRO, he said he had heard no information of such lately.

“I have no information about that rescue operation,” Hassan told FIJ.

VERDICT: The claim that police rescued over 300 people in a house in Rigasa, Kaduna, where the occupants were tortured and dehumanised is not a recent or breaking news, as the X user claimed.

The event happened in 2019 and the X user posted it on Friday morning for engagements.