Operatives of the Ogun state police command have arrested a 14-year-old house help, one Favour Iwuozor who fled after kidnapping a 2-year-old boy belonging to her boss.
Iwuozor who was brought to live with Mr. and Mrs. Moses Otojareri in November, 2021, vanished with the little boy whom she picked from the children section in their church on Sunday, December 19.
She was however arrested on January 3, 2022 following a complaint lodged at Sagamu divisional headquarters.
According to the command’s spokesperson, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, one Victoria Nwafor reported to the police that she saw a girl on the 22nd of December 2021, with a very sick baby boy in Yaba, Lagos state.
The girl was begging for alms with the baby claiming that their parents died in an accidect in December 2020.
Out of compassion, the woman took both of them to her house in Sagamu in order to take care of the little boy’s deteriorating health condition.
But immediately the boy fully recovered, the suspect wanted to single-handedly take the boy to Imo state which aroused the woman’s suspicion, hence her report.
Upon the report, the Dpo Sagamu division, CSP okiki Agunbiade detailed his detectives to go and bring the girl and the little boy.
On interrogation, the girl confessed that she was a maid to the mother of the little boy, and that she left with the boy since December 19, 2021, with the intention of taking the boy to Amraku Umorsu in Isiala/Mbano local government area of Imo state.
DSP Oyeyemi quoted her as saying that she was begging for alms to raise money for transportation to Imo state.
He added that the state Commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole ordered that the baby’s parents be contacted, while the case be forwarded to Lagos state command whose jurisdiction the crime was actually committed.
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