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By Christopher Oji
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a woman who allegedly abducted a five-year-old boy, Mohammed Naziru.
The victim was returning from the mosque in company with his eight-year-old sister, last week Friday at Iwaya area of Lagos,when he was allegedly abducted.
The woman, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, was said to have covered herself with a hijab, apparently to disguised as one of the worshippers who had gone to observe the Jumat prayer in the community mosque.
She was said to have given the older sibling N500 to buy yoghurt worth N150 for her, while she held on to Naziru.
However, when the girl returned,she could not see the woman and her brother,Naziru.
A search pearty was comstituted but to no avail until Monday, January 13, 2024, when the woman resurfaced in the community.
She was identified by Naziru’s elder sister as the alleged woman who sent her to buy biscuits and used the opportunity to abduct her younger brother.
It was gathered that immediately they she was identified,the suspect took to her heels,but she was arrested by an angry mob who attempted to lynch her .
The suspect was however, rescued from the hands of the angry mob by policemen from Sabo police division.
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The father of the abducted boy, Alhaji Idris Adamu, is on pains that his son’s whereabouts were still unknown, as the woman had refused to disclose where she kept him.
It was gathered that the woman had refused to disclose where she kept the little boy , instead the suspect was allegedly pretended to be mentally deranged when she arrived the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), where she was transferred to.
According to the abducted child’s father:”I got a call at about 1 pm last Friday, informing me that my son had been kidnapped. I rushed to the house and found a mob descending on the woman who abducted my son. I started begging them not to kill her because her death won’t bring my son back. I reported the matter at Sabo Police division, and they brought a vehicle to convey her to the station. But because of the crowd that besieged the police station, the police took the woman to SCID.
“I prayed fervently every day for the safety of my son and for the woman to be arrested. Indeed, God heard my prayer. The woman walked into the community, covering herself with the hijab, and was identified. Immediately she sighted my wife, she started running, and when she was caught, she said she wasn’t the one who kidnapped our son without being asked.
“The woman is not mad; she is only pretending. When she was apprehended, we found some pieces of papers in her possession where she wrote an address where they should keep the boy and the injection they should give to him to put him to sleep. She also wrote down many telephone numbers on some sheets of paper found in the multi-coloured purse that was found with her.
“All I want is my son. She should tell us where she kept him so that we can go get him before any harm befalls him”.
Besides, the 40-year-old man also wondered why the woman, who had braids on as at the time of arrest, suddenly loosened them to change her looks to that of someone who had not combed her hair for months.
He, therefore, appealed to detectives at the SCID to do all they could, as fast as possible, to extract the truth that would lead to the rescue of his son from where the suspect kept him.
A senior Police officer at SCID said the police would do memtal evaluation of the woman at a psychiatrist’s home to ascertain her mental state, as part of the investigation into the matter. It was also gathered that a man who initially claimed to be her father when the mob descended on her was picked by the police but later released.
