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- Police arrest female member, rescue kids
By Christopher Oji
A three-man- kidnapping gang on Monday invaded a Nursery/ Primary School at Ijegun area of Lagos and abducted three pupils.
However, luck ran out of the kidnappers as a female member was arrested by the police and the three abducted victims rescued from the suspect.
It was gathered that on Monday the gang comprising of two males and a lady had arrived the school ( nameswitheld ) pretending to had brought some kids to the school.
According to the police while two males on two commercial motorcycle (Okada) were waiting outside the gate , the female member entered the school premises and abducted three kids, but while she was taking them away, someone suspected that the kids were hypnotized and raised the alarm which attracted some teachers who confronted the woman .
It was gathered that while the teachers were questioning the woman who could not give them a reasonable answer, her gang member zoomed of on their Okada .
The police officer said that while the teacher was querying the suspect, the headmaster of the School , Mr. Segun rushed down to Area M Police Command, Idimu and the police raced to the school and took the woman and the kids to the station.
Lagos State Police Publlic Relations Officer (PPRO) SP Benjamin Hundeyin,said the headmaster reported that some unknown persons invaded their school and abducted three students in the school premises.
Mr Hundeyin ,said that upon the information, detectives from the area moved immediately to the school.
“The culprits were given a hot chase, where one of the suspects, 40 years old female (name witheld), who allegedly kidnapped three pre nursery children was arrested.
“The three children were rescued. However, the other unknown suspects escaped with an unregistered motorcycle on sighting the police.
“The victims, who are between ages of four and six have been reunited with their families while the suspect is in police custody,” he said.
Hundeyin further said that investigation revealed that the suspect arrested allegedly kidnapped the children for criminal purposes.
He said that the suspect and others at Large, had a standby motorcycle waiting for them to take the victims away,but luck ran against them.
He said that the suspect was helping the police with information that would lead to arrest of other fleeing gang members, ” we are on the trail of others at large”
He advised school management, particularly, nursery/primary schools to ensure strict security in their facilities, with every visitor properly screened before accessing the premises.
