SEE THE BRICKLAYER WHO ABDUCTS CHILDREN AND SELLS THEM FOR N1,500, HE WAS CAUGHT ON HIS ALLEGED 2ND MISSION

                             


Ola Ibikunle, a suspected child abductor,  has been detained by the police after he was caught with a four-year-old girl in the Oyero area of Ijoko, Ogun State.

Ibikunle, a bricklayer, had held his victim, Eniola, by the neck and was about to strangle her in an uncompleted building when he was caught by passersby.

The suspect, who confessed to have stolen a three-year-old boy and sold him for N1,500, was later handed over to operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Agbado Police Division.

PUNCH Metro gathered that Eniola and her 11-year-old sister, Opeyemi, were following their father, Segun Quadri, to a church in Ijoko around 2pm on Tuesday.

The father was said to have gone some distance ahead when the suspect ambushed the children and abducted Eniola.

The victim’s sister, Opeyemi, reportedly raised the alarm which caught the attention of some passersby.

The suspect was reportedly met in an uncompleted building while trying to strangle the girl.

An angry mob had beaten him up before the police arrived on the scene.

Ibikunle, who hails from Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, said Eniola was his second victim.

The suspect, who spoke in Yoruba, confessed to have stolen a three-year-old boy around the Ijoko area sometime in June and sold him to a man in the Sango area for N1,500.

He said, “I am a bricklayer, but I use child abduction to augment my wages. A man in the Sango area contracted me to always get children for him. I don’t know what he uses them for. Last month, I abducted a boy of about three years and sold him to the man for N1,500.

“This girl (Eniola) was the second child I would abduct, but I did not succeed.”

The victim’s father, Segun, the incidence happened around 1pm on Tuesday, he said he and the children were already late for a church programme on that day which made him to walk faster than them, he had thought that since Opeyemi is older, they would be able to find their way to church, he had walked some distance ahead of the children when some people called him and told him what Opeyemi had said when they heard her shouting.

Opeyemi led led them to the uncompleted building Ibikunle had taken Eniola where they met him holding her by her neck.

Efforts are being made to apprehend the buyer.

The Ogun State acting Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the suspect would be further investigated.