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.

Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Peculiar Allowance     Democracy Day     Share/Tsaragi     Bilikis Oladimeji     Hassanat Bello     Ibrahim Mohammed     Moremi High School     Nagode     Marufat Oladosu     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Alabere     Aminat Ahmed     Doyin Group     Iyiola Oyedepo     Kwara Polytechnic     Bola Shagaya     Saba Mamman Daniel     Eghe Igbinehi     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Kolawole Akande     Durbar     Offa Poly     Fatimoh Lawal     Paul Olawoore     Amosa     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Abubakar Imam     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Erubu Oba Zubair     Baba Issa     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Saliu Mustapha     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Ahmed Alhasssan     Bankole Omisore     Sarah Jubril     IQRA College     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Old Oyo     Kunle Suleiman     Kwara 2019     Alapansapa     Saheed Akinwumi     Monsurat Omotosho     Yetunde Balogun     AGF Abdulrazaq     Ahmad Lawan     Kumbi Titilope     Adedeji Onimago     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Eruku     Sulyman Buhari     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Fulani     Oko-Olowo     Baakini     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Alfa Belgore     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Belgore     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Folorunsho Alao     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Sanitation Exercise     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Seun Bolaji     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Gbugbu International Market     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Ademola Kiyesola    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

NYSC     Na\'Allah     Binta Abubakar Mora     Olusola Saraki     Aminu Ado Bayero     Olushola Saraki     Yahaya Seriki     Oloye     Baba Idris     Isau     Isiaka Oniwa     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     SAPZ Project     Esuwoye     Saliu Tunde Bello     Olupako Of Share     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Amos Justus Sayo     COVID     Ariyo     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Tunde Akanbi     Aso Ofi     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Henry Makinwa     Dele Belgore     Sarakite     Olabode Towoju     Baba Isale     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Yusuf Arowosaye     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Ahmed Dankaya     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Owo Isowo     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Ilorin     Democracy Day     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Bibire Ajape     Leke Ogungbe     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Sarah Jubril     Garba Ado Sanni     Police Commissioner     IPSAS     Amos Bajeh     Sheikh Alimi     Salihu Ajia     KWSIEC     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Lola Olabayo     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Saidu Kawu     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Idris Garba     Lucky Omoluwa     Kayode Zubair     Jide Ashonibare     SSUCOEN     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Sadiq Buhari     Admiralty Villa     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Convocation Ceremonies     Abubakar Imam     Offa Poly     Demola Banu     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Ilorin South Constituency     Saduki Lafiagi