Police arrest church member who hijack car with 12-month baby in Ilorin

Date: 2017-09-09

Kwara State police command has arrested a middle aged man on Friday in Ilorin after he hijacked a car with a 12-month old baby on Thursday night.

Tribune Online gathered that the baby's mother, a serving official of the Kwara state judiciary, had agreed to help the man from her church to Diviland area of Gaa-Akanbi, in the metropolis when the incident happened.

The man was said to have later hijacked the car with the baby inside and drove away.

A manhunt was immediately launched by the police while family members and friends resorted to massive social media awareness on the incident.

It was learnt that the man later abandoned the baby at Akerebiata area of the metropolis and drove back to Asa Dam area, a distance of about 10 kilometres, where he parked to spend the night with his girlfriend.

Narrating her ordeal, the woman said: "We had just finished the communion service and my baby was already restless. I had actually wanted to leave much earlier but just decided to stay for the grace. And then this man came up to me asking that I help him up to Diviland, which is just near my own house.

"I agreed to help him and just as I took the turn to our house immediately after Diviland, he brought out a knife and asked me to surrender the car. I struggled with him for sometime because I noticed that the knife he carried was not a very strong one but there was nobody to come to my aid. He later pushed me out and that was when people around realised something was wrong so they came but he had already sped off."

"It was gathered that immediately the matter was reported at the 'A' Division police station, men of the state command went into action and traced the car, first to a point around Agric Area. The man was said to have driven to Akerebiata, on the way to Sobi Barracks where he abandoned the baby in a car seat and from there made a detour back to Asa Dam Road where he went to lodge with his girlfriend.

Friends and family members continued yesterday to praise the police and other security agencies for the speed and effectiveness of the work that led to the recovery of the baby and the car.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ibrahim Gambari     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Baboko Primary School     Dan Iya     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Seun Bolaji     Elekoyangan     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Ibrahim Labaika     Abubakar Lah     Abdulazeez Arowona     Memunat Monsuma     Igbaja     Labour Party     Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Towoju     NURTW     Revenue Court     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Jamiu Oyawoye     Sambo Murtala     Iyaloja-General     Valsolar     COVID-19 Palliatives     Amos Bajeh     Tsaragi-Share     Bolaji Nagode     Kayode Laro     Iponrin     Saka Adeyemo     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Lateef Fagbemi     Temitope Ogunbanke     Kola Shittu     CCB     ANCOPPS     TESCOM     Ajakaye     Oko Erin     Lola Ashiru     Lai Gobir     Press Release     Abubakar Aliagan     Photo News     Kwara Polytechnic     National Broadcasting Commission     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Sayomi     Mahe Abdulkadir     Kemi Adeosun     Bolakale Ayo     Kaosarah Adeyi     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Ojo Fadumila     Lanre Aremu     Ilorin Central Mosque     Lawal Jimoh     JSSCE     Kuliyan Geri     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Tanke     Kehinde Baale     KFA     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     EndSARS     Olupako Of Share     Oluronke Adeyemi     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     March 28     Kanu Agabi     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Shehu Alimi Foundation     Ilorin Curfew     Sarah Alade     Peter Amogbonjaye     Oke-Ero     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Saliu Tunde Bello     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Shuaib Jawondo     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Magaji Erubu     Rapheal Ashaolu     Kwara State Sports Commission     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Omotosho     Lanre Issa Onilu     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Dele Momodu     Democracy Day     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Muritala Awodun     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Wahab Issa     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Tope Daramola     Ronke Adeyemi     Kwara 2019     Amos Justus Sayo     Kaiama     Idowu Aremu     Facemasks     Arca Santa     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Sabo-Oke     Amina El-Imam     Sheriff Shagaya     Ayo Adeyemi     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Patience Jonathan     Wahab Kunle Shittu     KWAFFA     Galland Marcias     Chikanda     Aliyu Adebayo     Yekeen Alabi     Kwara University Of Education     Ndakene     Moshood Mustapha     Olatunji Bamgbola     Kwasu     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Borgu     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Alaiye     Kunle Akogun     Kwara State Television     Oladimeji Thompson     Mohammed Ibrahim     Olatunji Ibrahim     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Alagbado     Voices Of Tomorrow     Timothy Akangbe     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Yusuf Mubarak     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Col. Taiwo     Ahman Patigi     Baruten     Kamoru Kadiri     Rueben Parejo