The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, has said
the police have arrested Mary Akinloye, the 23-year-old nanny, an
indigene of Ibadan, Oyo State, who allegedly kidnapped three children in
the Surulere area of Lagos State, western Nigeria.
Aderanti spoke on Thursday morning on a live Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily.
The three missing children, Ademola, 6, Adedamola, 4, and Aderomola, 11
months old, of the Orekoya family were allegedly kidnapped by their
nanny in Lagos State.
Akinloye was said to have been hired through an online trading portal OLX.
In an interview with Channels Television, police sources revealed that
the kidnappers, faced by immense pressure the incident had generated,
abandoned the children in Shasha Area of Lagos State.
The children were immediately taken to an anonymous hospital for observation and they are now re-united with their parents.
The kids were abducted by the housemaid on 8 April, a day into her job as the family maid.
She, as well as her accomplices, contacted the children’s parents and demanded a N15 m ransom.
The police at Shasha Division rescued the three kids, now famously known as the Orekoya kids,
The police led by the DPO, Obiorah Okonkwo, rescued the kids at 4,
Fatai Street, Shasha in Egbeda area of Lagos by 9 p.m. on Tuesday where
they were dumped by the abductors in a sack.
It was not certain
whether the parents of the victims, Mr. and Mrs. Adeleke Orekoya, paid
any ransom as demanded by the abductors.
Before the children were rescued, the parents were begging for fund online to pay the ransom demanded by their abductors.
The Lagos State Police Command Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ken
Nwosu who confirmed the rescue, said no ransom was paid for their
release.
P.M.NEWS gathered from a police source that the police
got information that they were dumped at the house and a rescue team
went to the place and took the victims to the station.
When our
correspondent visited the house where the victims were found, one of the
tenants, Mr William Abiodun, said the whole scenario unfolded at about 7
p.m. on Tuesday when they were outside because there was not
electricity.
He said when they heard a baby crying in the
compound, he went there and saw three children. He said he asked them
what they were doing there and where they came from. Abiodun said the
eldest child, Ademola introduced himself and the younger brother,
Damola.
Abiodun said he immediately raised the alarm which
attracted other neighbours because he heard about their disappearance in
the news.
He said with the help of other neighbours they
contacted the police who came to take them to the station. The children
said they were fed with jollof rice and plantain by their kidnappers.
When our reporter visited Afonka Police Station, the DPO referred him to the State Command where the were transferred to.
Lagosians were shocked follwing the disappearance of the three
children. Mary Akinloye, whose real name is Funmilayo Adeyemi, carried
out the act barely 24 hours after she was hired by tricking the
children’s eldest brother, Michael, that she was taking them to buy
biscuit for them.
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