18th November, 2015
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta
The combined team of Onipanu Police division in Ota and Ifo division on Saturday rescued a two-week old baby who was stolen in Abule Ifo in Ifo local government area of Ogun state.
The suspect, Ifeoluwa Yekini of Abule Ifo in Ifo town was alleged to have stolen the baby on Saturday, October 31, 2015.
According to a statement issued on Tuesday by the state Police spokesman, DSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the combined teams had placed the suspect under surveillance and they subsequently picked her up when he was seen in the area.
“The suspect(now in police custody), who had been monitoring the mother of the baby while pregnant, went under the pretense of felicitating with the mother in her house at the same village and requested to back the baby, which the mother obliged her.
“She went further by requesting from the mother to take the baby out to shop for the little baby girl. But at the market, the suspect decided to run away with the baby to an unknown place.
“The mother of the baby, after several efforts to locate her and the baby, then reported the case to the police at Divisional Headquarters in Ifo for search and necessary investigation.
“The suspect, who had been on some medications to deceive her husband that she was pregnant, took permission from her husband to visit her parents, in another village, from where she put a phone call across to her husband that she had put to bed.
“This was so suspicious and her relations and neighbors raised alarm which compelled her to flee to Onipanu area in Ota, Ogun state where she was eventually arrested on 14th November, 2015 at 0500hrs,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Ogun state Commissioner of Police, CP Abdulmajid Ali has charged parents to protect their children and keep watch over them.
He stressed that this case should be a lesson to many mothers.
CP Ali has however directed that the case be charged to court as the command will not tolerate any act of criminality in Ogun State.
