Man nabbed for stealing one-year old girl in Ogun

A 35-year old man, Sunday Alani has been arrested by the Ogun State Police command for stealing a one-year old child at Atolashe village in Odeda local government area of Ogun state.

The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the policemen attached to Odeda divisional headquarters that while the little girl was playing around in her parent’s compound, the suspect took advantage of the inattentive of her mother who was busy frying (gaari) cassava flakes and stylishly took the little girl and started running away.

According to the spokesman of the command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, it was a passerby, who noticed the suspicious movement of the suspect that called the attention of the mother who then raised the alarm.

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Upon the distress call, the Divisional Police Officer of Odeda division, CSP Femi Olabode quickly mobilized his men in conjunction with safe corps men and moved to the scene.  The suspect was chased to the bush where he was arrested and the child rescued from him.

On interrogation, the suspect confessed to the crime, he informed the police that he came to the area with two women who are his accomplices.

He explained further that he had previously stolen two children from Egbeda in Lagos and Akute area of Ogun state.

According to him, once he succeeded in stealing a child, he would hand such a child to the two women who would give him the sum of eighty thousand naira.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole has ordered a massive manhunt for the two accomplices of the suspect with the view to bring them to justice.

The CP also directed that the suspect be transferred to the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.