Man, 35, Who Steals & Sells Children Each For N80,000 Arrested

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A 35-year old man, Sunday Alani, who specialised in stealing and selling children to women for N80,000 each, has finally been arrested by the Police operatives from the Ogun State Command.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the Police operatives arrested the suspect, Alani, on 23rd February, 2022, for stealing a one-year old child at Atolashe Village in Odeda Local Government Area of the state.

He is presently undergoing interrogation and has made some confessional statements how he has being stealing children and selling them to his buyers.

This was confirmed by the Command’s spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in Abeokuta in Ogun State.

He stated that the suspect, Alani, 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 (garri) cassava flakes as he stylishly took the little girl and started running away.

“It was a passerby, who noticed the suspicious movement of the suspect that called the attention of the mother who then raised alarm.”

“Upon the distress call, the DPO Odeda Division, CSP Femi Olabode, quickly mobilized his men in conjunction with so 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 will hand such child to the two women, who will give him the sum of eighty thousand Naira.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered manhunt for the two women 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.