Police arrest 3 suspected child kidnappers

Men of the Ogun state command have arrested three suspects for allegedly kidnapping a four-year-old boy, Hammed Adeniran.

The suspects, Abubakar Saidu, Danladi Abdulkarim and Abdullah Idris were arrested  Friday, January 24 at Arepo bus stop, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said in a statement in Abeokuta Sunday, that the arrest of the suspects followed a complaint by the mother of the child, one Nimota Adeniran who reported at Warewa police station that she was alerted by one of her neighbours that her son was sighted with three strange men at Arepo bus stop along Lagos Ibadan expressway where they were waiting to board a vehicle to only God knows where.

Upon the information, she started looking for her son only to discover that he is no longer where he left him. 

Following the report, the DPO Warewa Division, Folake Afeniforo quickly mobilised a team of policemen and stormed the bus stop where the men were said to be waiting to board a vehicle. 

“On getting there, the three men were met with the child in their possession and were promptly arrested with the help of members of the public,” Oyeyemi said.

“On interrogation, the three suspects who claimed to have come from Jigawa state could not give any reasonable account of why the child was seen with them or why they wanted to board commercial bus with the child,” the police spokesman added.

The child has been reunited with his parents while the suspects are undergoing interrogation. 

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