A lady was usually seen
around the area behaving like a lunatic, but became ‘sane’ when she was
apprehended yesterday morning trying to abduct a child. Obviously scared for
her life when she was caught in the act, the yet-to-be identified lady
reportedly began to divulge information of her activities.
The yet-to-be identified
child abductor, who confessed to being part of a 27-woman syndicate from Benin
Republic, narrowly escaped being lynched yesterday when she was caught at Aka
Road, Okokomaiko area of Lagos.
According to the suspect,
“we were 27 women that came as a syndicate from Benin Republic.
Each woman was given five
phones to contact their buyers once the targets, mainly little children, were
found. We then discard the phone after transactions to avoid been traced. The
abduction is for outright sale, not for a ransom.”
The missing child count in
Okokomaiko and its environs, in the last two months, is about seven. Few days
ago, in the same Okokomaiko, another female child abductor was apprehended
after she successfully kidnapped a child and attempted to kidnap the second
child before she was noticed. Unfortunately, she could not produce the first
child before she was whisked away by the police.
Lamenting, a resident in
the area, Omowummi Ireti, said: “In the last one year, the trend of women
kidnapping children has been on the increase.
“Fortunately, some of the
women involved have been caught in recent times and they are always rescued
from the mob and whisked away by the police. But the sad thing is that nothing
is ever heard of the outcome again. “If the Nigerian Police is a serious
outfit, one of such ‘arrests’ is enough lead to get to the root of this
syndicate and crack it.”
When Vanguard visited the
Okoko Division Police Station, the suspect was a shadow of herself as she has
been beaten to stupor. She was vomiting and acting funny. Contacted, the Lagos
State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos, said that the
case had been transferred to state CID, Panti.
Source
Vanguard
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