Woman Arrested For Kidnapping 3 School Children

“At first, the suspect acted like a dumb person but after some tactics was used on her by operative, she started talking. We also got information that she has mental problem.

All that she has said so far is useful to the investigation,’’ according to Police officer CP Owoseni.

The 42-year-old woman, Mrs Nimotu Raheem, was arrested in the Itire-Ikate, Surulere area of Lagos for kidnapping three children at an Arabic School.

The alleged kidnapper who was arrested by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, yesterday, Thurday, September 17, allegedly kidnapped a set of twins Taiye and Kehinde, 4 and a 16-month old boy, Fatai Adeola.

The Nation reports that the suspected kidnapper was a millisecond away from being lynched yesterday if not for the quick intervention of the Police.  CP Owoseni said the suspect had demanded for the boy from his mother, who obliged her without questioning her motive.

“It was another woman who saw the manner the suspect demanded for the child and the mother gave the child out without any resistance or questions that now raised alarm. For the quick intervention of the police from Itire, the suspect would have been mobbed.

Owoseni said the suspect, during interrogation has confessed and given the names of other accomplices. He however urged the entire public to be very vigilant because if not for the vigilance of an old woman, the kidnapper would have made away with the kids.

Mrs Raheem, who said she had a two-year-old child in the same Arabic school, explained that she wanted to take the children to their parents.

“I went to take my child and also the twins to their parent,” she said.

An eye-witness Amina Ayinla said: “The suspect took the twins at about 7pm from Arabic school in the area and claimed that she was a relative of the twins’ mother but unfortunately for her, the grandmother of the twins saw her and alerted the neighbours who gathered and rescued them from her.”

Fatai’s mother, Temilola Adeola said the suspect used charm to take his son away from her in the Arabic class.

Another eyewitness, who gave his name as Ope, said yam flour, children’s pants and biscuits were found in the suspect’s bag by the mob.

Meanwhile, an attempt by a man to use an 8-year-old kidnapped boy as collateral for goods worth N51,000 was thwarted in Surulere area of Lagos on Monday, September 7.

Days ago, police arrested a suspected female kidnapper in Lagos. The kidnapper, Eno, was arrested with three toddlers in her possession. Eno and the three children were on an Iddo, Lagos-bound Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) vehicle, when the attention of other passengers got drawn to her when she could not pacify the 4-month-old baby who was crying uncontrollably.