A 35 year old man, Sunday Alani, has been arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command for stealing a one year old child at Atolashe Village in Odeda local government area of Ogun State.
Alani was arrested on February 23, 2022 following a distress call received by the policemen attached to Odeda divisional headquarters.
According to the spokesman of the police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, it was alleged that while the little girl was playing around in her parent’s compound, the suspect took advantage of the inattentiveness of her mother who was busy frying cassava flakes (garri) to carry the little girl and start 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 Divisonal Police Officer, DPO, Odeda division, CSP Femi Olabode, quickly mobilised his men in conjunction with members of the So Safe Corps 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 were 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 child to the two women who would give him the sum of N80,000.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole, has ordered a massive manhunt for the two women accomplices of the suspect with the view to bringing them to justice.
The CP also directed that the suspect be transferred to state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation.
