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.

Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Kwara Polytechnic     Kunle Suleiman     Ola Falade     Mary Kemi Adeosun     CCT     UNILORIN Alumni     Haleeman Salman     JAAC     Ajidagba     Okanlawon Musa     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Omupo     Binta Sulyman     Illyasu Abdullahi     Folorunsho Alao     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Tafida Of Ilorin     Laolu Saraki     Police Commissioner     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Okoolowo     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     Leke Ogungbe     Ilorin     Tunde Oyawoye     Oya State     Galland Marcias     Muazam Nayaya     Ahmad Belgore     Folaranmi Aro     Amos Bajeh     Pakata Patriots     Tafidan Kaiama     Mutawali     Afolayan     Bashir Badawi     NSCIA     Fulani     Okanlawon Taiwo     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Kazeem Oladepo     Senate President     Awwal Jawondo     Sheriff Shagaya     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Awoye     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Igbaja     Voices Of Tomorrow     Atiku Abubakar     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Ojuekun Sarumi     Maja     TESCOM     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Musa Alhassan Buge     Gbenga Awoyale     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Ayo Salami     Adijat Adebiyi     Lucky Omoluwa     SWAN     Kwara TV     Olam Food Ingredients     Pacify Labs     Www.Kwarareports.com     Sulyman Buhari     Okin Biscuits    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Ojo Isekuse     Tunde Kazeem     Olayinka Olaogun     Sambo Murtala     Gbemi Saraki     Dogara     Taofeek Sanusi     Galadima     SDP     Folajimi Aleshinloye     Lotus Bank     Kwara Volleyball Association     Mamatu Abdullahi     Marufat Oladosu     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     S.O. Opowoye     Oja-Oba     COVID     Playing Host     Amasa     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     NIRSAL     Segun Ogunsola     Hassan Oyeleke     Ibrahim Orire     Simon Sayomi     Afonja Descendants Union     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Isa Aremu     Ghali Muhammed     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Elewu     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Orisun Igbomina     Baba Idris     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Adekunle David Dunmade     Kale Bayero     Ado Ibrahim     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Harrison Osauwagboe     EndSARS     Awodun     Saka Onimago     Rueben Parejo     Ajibike Katibi     ASMAU PLAZA     April 11     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Tsaragi-Share     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Kola Ologbondiyan     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Femi Agbaje     Muhammed Danjuma     Ishola Abdullahi     Elesie Of Esie     SGBN     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Shehu Adaramaja     IHS Towers     Press Release     Saadu Alanamu     Ekweremadu     Yakub Ali-Agan     Arik     Oko     Al-Ilory     Akanji