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A mud house burnt by members of Kala-Kato in Bauchi
He did not give details of the charges they are facing.
The Red Cross said the children were part of 48 displaced when their homes were destroyed during the year-end violence.
Clashes erupted in Bauchi between suspected members of a radical Islamist sect known as Kala-Kato and security forces at the end of December.
At least 70 people were killed, many of them children and minors.
Houses, cars and motorcycles were burnt during the clashes.
The Kala-Kato sect rejects modernity, including Western-style education and medicine. It bans television and radio in its members' homes and rejects any literature except the Koran.
"We have 65 internally displaced persons from the December 29, 2009 sectarian unrest comprising 48 children whose fathers were killed in the violence and their 17 mothers," Adamu Abubakar, head of the Nigerian Red Cross in Bauchi told AFP.
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The Red Cross said the children were part of 48 displaced when their homes were destroyed during the year-end violence.
Clashes erupted in Bauchi between suspected members of a radical Islamist sect known as Kala-Kato and security forces at the end of December.
At least 70 people were killed, many of them children and minors.
Houses, cars and motorcycles were burnt during the clashes.
The Kala-Kato sect rejects modernity, including Western-style education and medicine. It bans television and radio in its members' homes and rejects any literature except the Koran.
"We have 65 internally displaced persons from the December 29, 2009 sectarian unrest comprising 48 children whose fathers were killed in the violence and their 17 mothers," Adamu Abubakar, head of the Nigerian Red Cross in Bauchi told AFP.
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