United States-based Nigerian lawyer and human rights advocate, Emmanuel Ogebe, has accused the Kano State Government of continuing to hold seven Christian orphans and refusing to release the body of a 13-year-old boy who died while in state custody. Ogebe said efforts by his team and the United States Embassy had secured the release of some of the children, but seven remain in Kano. According to him: “There were seven orphans who were part of 27 that were taken from a Christian orphanage, put into a Kano State orphanage. “Their names were changed to Muslim names and they were converted. The lawyer disclosed that one of the children, identified as David Tafai, died in Kano State custody in January.