A middle-aged man, Sakiru Famuyiwa, was on Friday, April 15th, arrested at Ijeja area of Abeokuta by men of the Ogun State police command for abducting two children during a church service.
The suspect was arrested following a distress call received by policemen at Ibara Divisional Headquarters.
The suspect crept into the Celestial Church of Christ, Ijeja, together with an accomplice, while the Good Friday service was ongoing. They went to the children’s department and stole two children who are two and three years old.
Luck ran out on them when a member of the congregation saw them and raised the alarm. They fled and were hotly pursued by the congregation, who caught up with one of the two suspects.
The police were alerted and the DPO Ibara division, CSP Nasirudeen Oyedele, sent his men to the scene where the suspect was rescued from an angry mob who were about to lynch him.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed this to newsmen, said the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the anti-kidnapping unit of the state criminal investigation and intelligence department for discreet investigation. He also ordered that the accomplice must be hunted for and brought to book.
