THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED OVER ALLEGED STEALING OF 4 YEAR OLD BOY IN OGUN

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested three suspects for alleged stealing of  a 4 year  old boy Hammed Adeniran, in Arepo axis of the Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of the State.

Penpushing reports that, the Command Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi who disclosed this on Sunday, gave identities of the suspects as ; Abubakar Saidu(22), Danladi Abdulkarim(30) and Abdullah Idris(25), whose arrest  followed a complaint by the mother of the child.

The police spokesman  said the mother of the victim, Nimota Adeniran  reported at Warewa police station that she was alerted by one of her neighbours that her son was sighted with three strange men at Arepo bus stop along Lagos Ibadan expressway where they were waiting to board a vehicle to only God knows destination .

‘Upon the information, she started looking for her son only to discover that he is no longer where he left him. On the strength of the report, the DPO Warewa Division SP Folake Afeniforo quickly mobilized a team of policemen and raced to the bus stop where the men were said to be waiting to board vehicle’.

‘On getting there, the three men were met with the child in their possession and were promptly arrested with the help of members of the public.  On interrogation, the three suspects who claimed to have come from Jigawa State cannot give any reasonable account of why the child was seen with them or why they wanted to board commercial bus with the child’.

The police image maker said the child has been reunited with his parents while the suspects are undergoing interrogation, adding that the Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation and possible prosecution.

Penpushing further reports that,the Commissioner, therefore advised parents to always take the security and wellbeing of their children serious in order to shield them from those looking for every means to be rich.