Police find 2 missing children, 5 years after abduction

….Arrest suspected kidnapper

Five years after the abduction of two children, Ikimot and Okashetu Musa, by a gang of kidnappers, men of the Lagos State Police command have arrested the prime suspect, Christiana Onuchukwu.

The children who were abducted at age seven and six respectively were kept in the custody of the suspect since 2014.

Lick ran out on Onuchukwu when Ikimot who is now 12 years old, went to Denton Police Station and reported that she was taken away from her parents some years ago and handed over to a woman she now calls mum.

The child mentioned her abductor’s address and asked the police to reunite her with her parents.

Based on her complaint, the DPO, CSP Saheed Quadri, immediately led a team of detectives to the suspect’s hideout at No.1 Ogati Street, Fadeyi, Lagos, where the suspect was apprehended.

According to the Lagos Police Public relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti, who confirmed the arrest of Onuchukwu, “ When the suspect and her victim were  debriefed, the child stated that she was seven years old when she started living with the suspect and that her present age is 12.

“She mentioned another little boy called Okashetu Musa as another victim of the suspect. Thus, the DPO, Sent Police Division dispatched a team of detectives to rescue the boy who was abducted when he was six but now eleven years old.

 “In his own account, the boy who could still speak Hausa said he once lived in the Ebute Meta area of the state with his mother.

“The leader of the Hausa community in Ebute Meta was invited to the station to help link the child to his parents. The leader, after consultation with his subjects, claimed that the mother of the boy, a blind woman, had relocated to Katsina State having lost hope on the possibility of finding her child. “

Oti further revealed that the children have been reunited with their parents while the suspect had been charged to Ebute Meta Magistrate’s Court 5 for conspiracy, abduction and child stealing.

It was gathered that the Commissioner of Police, CP Zubairu Muazu has also directed the Divisional Police Officer to intensify efforts in ensuring that all the persons connected with the crime are arrested and prosecuted.