The Ondo state police command has arrested three suspects over kidnapping and child trafficking allegations.
Addressing journalists in Akure, the Ondo capital, on
Saturday, Wilfred Afolabi, commissioner of police, said 14 children between the
ages of one week and seven years were rescued.
The suspects were identified as Lukman Isiaka, 42; Abosede
Olanipekun; and Sabira Izuorah, 62.
The arrests followed a report by a mother whose 18-month-old
child was abducted in Akure.
“A case of a missing child was reported at Okuta Elerin-Nla
division in Akure. A complainant reported that a man, Samuel Adejobi (real
name: Lukman Isiaka, m age, 42 years), and a woman, Ewatomi (real name: Abosede
Olanipekun), came to her shop pretending to be siblings to eat,” the police
commissioner said.
“While playing with the complainant’s child, Abosede
deceived her by claiming she wanted to buy biscuits for the baby. Meanwhile,
Lukman distracted the complainant by engaging her in a personal conversation
and requested she followed him to Olukayode Plaza in the market to get a mobile
phone.
“On getting to the market area, he abandoned her and left.
On getting back to the shop, the complainant discovered that her child was
missing with no trace of Abosede the supposed sister of the man she followed to
the market, thus a report was made at the division.”
Investigations led the police to Ottah Village in Edo state,
where Isiaka and Olanipekun were apprehended. During interrogation, Afolabi
said the suspects confessed to abducting children from Ondo and Osun states and
selling them to one Sabira Izuorah in Ihiala, Anambra state, for N1 million per
child.
Subsequently, Izuorah was arrested in Ihiala, and four
infants were recovered from her residence.
The rescued babies were identified as “Baby Favour, three
weeks old; Baby Chidera, two weeks old; Baby Chinyere, two months and five days
old; and Baby Uzoma, one week old”.
The police commissioner added that on January 14, ten
children sold by Izuorah were rescued from various locations. These children
have been reunited with their families.
Afolabi said some children remain unaccounted for and
assured that efforts are ongoing to locate and rescue them.
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