Security operatives in Ogun State have nabbed one Sunday Alani, 35, for allegedly stealing a one-year-old child at Atolashe village in Odeda LGA of the state.
It was gathered that the suspect was arrested while he was attempting to escape with a child of about one and a half year old.
The command’s spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Friday, February 25, said the suspect was arrested following a distress call received by the policemen attached to Odeda divisional headquarters.
He said 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 and stylishly took the little girl and started running away.
Mr Oyeyemi added 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 st#aling a child, he will hand such child to the two women who will give him the sum of N80k,” Oyeyemi said.
