The Ogun
State police command has arrested a 20-year-old woman, Ajoke Owolabi, for
allegedly kidnapping a seven-year-old girl, Racheal Olorunshola, and keeping
her
in custody for 19 months.
in custody for 19 months.
The little
girl, according to a statement by the command’s spokesman, Mr. Abimbola
Oyeyemi, in Abeokuta yesterday, said the suspect kidnapped the girl while
returning from school and the parents have been looking for her since then.
Oyeyemi
disclosed that the girl was “suddenly brought home to her parents by a Good
Samaritan last month. Few weeks later after her return, the girl, while playing
in front of her parents’ house in Igbore area of Abeokuta saw her abductor
passing by and immediately raised an alarm,” Oyeyemi disclosed.
“The victim
identified Owolabi as her abductor and she was promptly arrested by the police
but she denied ever knowing the girl”, the statement indicated.
“The girl
quickly mentioned her name as Aunty Ajoke and when she was searched, her name
was seen conspicuously written on her body. It was then she admitting the
crime.”
The suspect
also admitted that she took the victim to Oshodi in Lagos where she was kept
for 19 months.
According to
the statement, the suspect admitted that she came to attend a party in Abeokuta
and kept the girl in a room in Lagos from where she escaped, adding that she
passed through the girl’s parents’ house unknown to her that the girl was there
on that fateful day when she was arrested.
The
Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, has ordered the immediate transfer of
the suspect to the Anti Kidnapping/Cultist Unit of the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence Department for further investigation and
possible prosecution, Oyeyemi disclosed.
The suspect
is being detained at the Police Command’s headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta,
pending the conclusion of investigations and her arraignment in court
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