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Ondo Police arrest female kidnappers

By Ayodele Popoola

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested two suspected female kidnappers: Adeola Omoniyi and Aanu Afolabi for stealing their neighbour’s children.

Report had it that they allegedly stole the children, but for the neighbours who recognized the children and raised alarm and they were apprehended.

Similarly, the police arrested a woman who maltreated her granddaughter by dipping the girl’s hands inside hot water and kept her in the house because she allegedly stole from her pot of soup.

The command’s spokesperson, SP Funmilayo Odunlami stated that one of the suspects Omoniyi, 22, was arrested alongside the father.

A statement  signed by Odunlami stated: “On the 1st of July, 2022, a case of child stealing was reported at Ore Division,  a grandmother sent her granddaughter Precious Aje ‘f’ 5years, on errand.

 “On her way she was accosted by one Adeola Omoniyi ‘f’ of Ilutitun, Okeasa Street, held her and was taking her away but for the neighbours who recognized the child and raised alarm before she was rescued.”

The suspect  confessed to have stolen two kids in the community for her father, Ilesanmi Omoniyi, who in turn pays her N30,000 for each operation.

She said “I’m a kidnapper. I do kidnap little children and I always deliver them to my father in his house at Igbotako. I was successful with the first two children I took but I was caught with the third one.

“After delivering the kids to my father, he used to give me N30,000 for each operation. I do use the money to take care of myself. I don’t know what he normally uses the children for. All I do is just to take them to him.

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“He was the one that told me to always bring the children to him. I picked the first child from Ilutitun and  Ilowo.

“I have been doing this for about two years. The first one was in 2021 and the second one this year. I always ask the children when they were alone where they were going and I hold their hand and they will follow me.”

However, the father who said that her daughter lied against him, stated that she had been battling with a mental problem.

“My daughter used to stay in Lagos. She spent about two years in Lagos. She got sick and they brought her to me in Igbotako. She was stacked naked when they brought her to me.

“I later took her to a church where the pastor said I should pay N80,000. I sold my cassava and I paid the pastor. He later told me that she is better but a few days after he called again that he could not find her as she had left the church.

In the same vein, a 23-year-old kidnapper, Aanu Afolabi was arrested at Semu-Semu Park Ikare Akoko with three year old baby.

It was gathered that the suspected kidnapper seized the opportunity that the mother of the child, one Mrs Bamitale was not around when she picked the child and she put her on her back.

As she was going, a neighbor noticed the strange woman and cried to people leading to her running away before she was eventually caught.

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