Aishat went missing on
Wednesday, September 25, 2017, and his father, Yekini Muyideen, reported the
case to the police at the Meiran division.
It was learnt that police
operatives acted on a tip-off and picked up professor.
The fifty-seven year-old
herbalist, Tunde Ajibolorunsoro, aka professor, has been held by the police for
allegedly abducting a five-year-old girl in the Meiran area of Lagos State.
He was said to have sold
the victim, Aishat Muyideen, to his neighbour, Tajudeen Makanjuola, who is also
an herbalist, for N60,000.
The state Commissioner of
Police, Edgar Imohimi, stated that professor led police operatives to arrest
Makanjuola.
He said the duo had engaged
in a number of child kidnapping before luck ran out on them.
He said, “The suspects
specialise in kidnapping and selling children. After the father of the girl
reported the case, investigation commenced. Investigation revealed that
Ajibolorunsoro, aka professor, sold Aishat to one Makanjuola, aka Oluwo.”
However, the suspects, who
spoke with our correspondent on Monday at the police headquarters in Ikeja,
refuted the allegation.
Professor said he was
tortured by the police to confess to the crime.
The police command,
however, dismissed his claim.
He said, “I am a native
doctor. On Wednesday, I was sitting outside my house in the evening when I saw
some people, who said they were searching for a missing child. Around 11pm when
I retired to bed, some people shone torches on my house. I came out and asked
them what happened. They said they were looking for a child.
“I advised them to report
at the Meiran Police Station and they said they had done so. A few minutes
after, I saw the torchlight again and came out.”
He said a crowd thronged
his house the following morning and accused him of abducting the child. He said
his apartment and compound were ransacked but the girl was not found.
“The police later arrested
me. They tortured me to the extent that I didn’t know when I confessed that I
stole the child and sold her to Oluwo.”
Oluwo, 65, who said he had
no hand in the disappearance of the girl, stated that he was arrested after
professor “was forced to confess.”
He said, “This man
(professor) had said he was tortured to confess and that was why he mentioned
me. If I know anything about this matter, I should die mysteriously. I am an
herbalist in Meiran. I only know professor as a neighbour.”
Meanwhile, one Olamilekan
Alatise, has been arrested in connection with the murder of a four-year-old
girl, Faridat Sulyman, on Ogbe Close, Iwaya, Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro had reported
that Sulyman was found in a pool of blood in a shrine at the back of her
parents’ rented apartment on July 24, 2017, around 8pm.
Alatise was said to have
been the custodian of the shrine since his father, who owned it, died.
The CP said efforts were
ongoing to arrest other suspects complicit in the murder of the girl.
“After an extensive
investigation into the incident, I am pleased to announce to you that one
Olamilekan Alatise, the mastermind of the heinous crime, who resides in
Ikorodu, has been arrested.
“He confessed to the crime
and also mentioned his sister and one other in connection with the incident,”
he said.
But 35-year-old Alatise
rebuffed the confession claim, saying he only used dogs and pigs for sacrifice
at the shrine.
“I did not know anything
about the girl’s death. The only person that also performs sacrifice at the
shrine is a man called Kazeem,” he added.
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