Detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department,
Panti, Yaba, Lagos, western Nigeria have intensified efforts to recover
all the stolen babies allegedly bought by an Onitsha-based human
trafficker who was arrested in Lagos last Monday for purchasing a stolen
two-year old baby.
Grace Onye (on the right) and her friend who needed a child
This
followed the confessional statement made by the trafficker, Mrs. Grace
Onye, 52. Onye told the police that she specialises in the illegal
business of buying babies in Lagos for sale to those who required them.
In
her confession, she admitted that it was not her first time of coming
to Lagos to buy babies, adding that she had been coming to Lagos to buy
babies in the past three years. She told the police that she sold all
the babies to those in need, especially barren women.
She was
arrested along with her customer, 45-year old Mrs. Ngozi Ikeh who is
barren and needed a child. They were arrested at Ikotun in the morning
while going back to Ontisha with a stolen baby sold to them for N300,000
by their contact man who is now at large.
The suspects confessed
that they had a contact man simply identified as Samuel who usually
lodged them at Francis Inn Hotel located at Abiola Adeyemi Street,
Igando Road, Ikotun whenever they are in Lagos to buy babies. Grace
confessed further that it was in that hotel that Samuel brought the baby
and collected N300,000.
Joy Olowolade, the two-year old stolen
baby was allegedly kidnapped at 6, Oladunjoye Street, off Igando Road,
Ikotun Lagos. Samuel abducted the baby at the stated address in a
dramatic form around 4 p.m. on Monday when he threw a banger in the
compound where Joy was playing with other kids.
The sound of the
banger caused confusion in the compound and the children ran away in
different directions. When the dust settled, Joy was nowhere to be
found.
Her elder sister, Eniola Olowolade, after a frantic search
for her, alerted her parents, Ayodele and Funke Olowolade, of her
disappearance. Funke explained that one of her neighbours confirmed that
she saw the man who snatched the baby during the confusion that greeted
the explosion of the banger.
Olowolade and neighbours later
arranged themselves in groups to look for the missing baby. They
searched for Joy in every house and street in the neighbourhoods but
could not find her.
Narrating her experience, Funke stated: “It
all happened like a dream, Joy told me she was hungry and I was
preparing her food when she went out to play with her friends in the
compound.
Within the twinkling of an eye Eniola rushed
in to tell us that somebody threw a banger in the compound and everybody
ran away. She said she didn’t see Joy when the commotion died down.
We searched all the nooks and crannies till midnight. She was nowhere to be found,” Funke said.
At
about 4 a.m. the following day, the Olowolades and their neighours
moved round the streets again looking for Joy. They saw a woman walking
briskly and carrying a baby on her back with her friend. Somebody
shouted the name of the missing baby and Joy answered ‘ma.’
Immediately
the baby answered, the trafficker and her friend ran. They tried to
drop the baby but they were caught by the rescuers. They were beaten and
later handed over to the police at Ikotun division who transferred them
to the SCID for further investigation.
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Find this man ASAP! If not, he would go elsewhere and set up shop again. Children are not save around this man, who in his sick and convoluted mind thinks the best way to make money, is to kidnap other people's God given children, innocent, weak children and sell them to the highest bidder. This is sick, and is the work of a 'lazy idiot', who is weak and unable to find a real job. This I person I presume has his own children but protects them to sell other people's children. May God forgive him, for this very sinful way of making money- and using the proceeds to live his own sick live, raise a family etc.
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