Police Rescue Stolen Kids 5 Years After Abduction

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Two kids allegedly abducted about five years ago from their parents’ abode and kept in captivity by a woman have been rescued by the police in Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS reports as was disclosed by the Lagos State PPRO, CSP Chike Oti.
Mr. Oti stated that the Lagos State Police Command on Thursday, February 28, 2019, apprehended a woman, one Christiana Onuchukwu, for abducting and keeping in her custody, two children declared missing in 2014.
He said that the suspect, Christiana Onuchukwu, ran out of luck when one of the abducted children, Ikimot Awojuju, 12, came to Denton Police Station, reported that she was taken away from her parents some years ago and handed over to a woman she now calls mom. She mentioned her abductor’s address and asked the police to reunite her with her parents.
Based on her complaint, the DPO in charge of Denton Police Station, CSP Saheed Quadri, led a team of detectives to No.1 Ogati Street, Fadeyi, Lagos, where the suspect was apprehended.
When the suspect and her victim were interrogated, the child stated that she was seven years old when she started living with the suspect and that she is presently 12. She mentioned another little boy called Okashetu Musa as another victim of the suspect.
Thus, the DPO dispatched a team of detectives to rescue the boy who was abducted when he was six but now eleven years old.
In his own account, the boy who could still speak Hausa said he once lived in the Ebute Meta area of the state with his mother.
The leader of the Hausa community in Ebute Meta was then invited to the police station to help link the child to his parents. The leader, after consultation with his subjects, claimed that the mother of the boy, a blind woman, had relocated to Katsina State having lost hope on the possibility of finding her child.
Meanwhile, the children have been reunited with their parents while the suspect was on Tuesday March 5, 2019, charged before Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court 5 for conspiracy, abduction and child stealing.
Mr. Oti said that the Commissioner of Police has directed the Divisional Police Officer to intensify efforts in ensuring that all the persons connected with the crime are arrested and prosecuted.