A suspected kidnapper was, last weekend, apprehended at
Iyana Iba market in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping three
children. The suspect allegedly took the children, aged four, six
and seven years, on the pretext that he wanted to buy biscuits
for them.
Speaking to Vanguard, the mother of the children, Mrs. Iyabo
Lawal, said:
“I was in the shop when the man passed the first time, I didn’t
know he was monitoring my kids who were playing with my
mother in her shop. I was busy attending to customers and
didn’t notice when my children followed him. I thought they
were still playing in my mother’s shop, not knowing that a
stranger had taken them away.
“Some people, who saw my children with the man at the end
of Iyana Iba road questioned him on what he was doing with
the children and he told them he was going to buy something
for them.
When he could not answer the neighbours satisfactorily, they
raised alarm and people gathered and started beating him. At
this time I had started looking for my children when someone
alerted me that they had seen them with a man at the other
side of road.”
Vanguard gathered that but for the intervention of mobile
policemen attached to CTU Base 2, Anti Terrorism, Ikeja, the
mob would have lynched the man.
The suspect, who identified himself as Ihenacho and claimed to
be a security man at Alaba International Market, refused to
disclose what he was doing with the children. The suspect was
later handed over to policemen from Ojo Police Division.
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