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.

Kehinde Boyede     Muhammed Abdullahi     Kemi Adeosun     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Ijagbo Health Centre     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Alao Ayotunde     CACOVID     United Nigeria Congress Party     KWIRS     Kwha.gov.ng     Ebola     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Omotoso     Garba Dogo     Fatimoh Lawal     Adaramaja     Femtech     Ayobami Akanbi     Idi-Ape     Fatai Olodo     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Cornelius Adebayo     Haliru Yahaya     Funmilayo Zubair     Isin     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Sam Onile     ER-KANG Mining     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Kwara State Governor     Kulende     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Kwara Basketball Association     Ileloke     Young Progressives Party     Saheed Akinwumi     Niyi Osundare     Yakubu Shaaba     Lawal Jimoh     IDPU     Government High School Adeta     Garba Idris Ajia     Yahaya Dumoye     Rueben Parejo     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Abdulraheem Olesin     Ayinde Oki     General Hospital, Offa     Sardauna     Ilorin     Baaziki Sulaiman     Madawaki     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Twitter     Ayedun     SSUCOEN     Alaiye     Umar Gunu     Apado     Millennium Development Goals     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Bamikole Omishore     Facemasks     Ramat Oganija     Ilesha-Baruba     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Sheikh Alimi     Kamoru Kadiri     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Maigidasanma    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Shuaib Boni Aliyu     NAWOJ     Dairo Kunle Paul     Share-Tsaragi     Borgu     Kamaldeen Gambari     Oro Grammar School     Dele Belgore     Muhammadu Buhari     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Abdullahi Samari     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Ubandawaki     Ado Ibrahim     Kawu Baraje     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Shehu Jimoh     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Esuwoye     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     2023 Elections     Third Estate     Sadiq Buhari     Alfa Yahaya Road     Babaita     Abubakar B.M     Baruba     Aliyu Alhassan     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Elesie Of Esie     Government High School Adeta     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Saraki     Bolaji Aladie     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Aliyu U. Tilde     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     CELF     Idris Garba     Ariyo     Ethical College     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Oja-Oba     Raimi Iyanda     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Abiodun Oyedepo     Aliyu Sabi     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Share/Tsaragi     Oba Abu     Kubra Kazum     Isiaka Alikinla     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Ishaq Salman     Ishaq Oloyede     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Yemi Sanni     Musibau Akanji     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Lanre Jimoh     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Ilorin Central Mosque     College Of Education     Abubakar Atiku     High Court     Oyawoye     Cornelius Adebayo     Computer Based Test     Kolo     Village Alive Development Association     Inside Kwara     Suleiman Alege Kuranga