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.
The kids with their mother
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