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.

Ilofa     Baakini     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Ganmo     PharmAccess Foundation     Adeleke Ogungbe     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Olawuyi     Nigeria Customs Service     Teachers Specific Allowance     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Saka Adeyemo     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     MMWG     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Mamman Saba Jibril     MAI Akande     New Model Police Station     Segun Ogunsola     Ibrahim Gambari     Sa\'adu Gambari     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Iyaloja-General     David Adesina     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Aiyedun     Ileloke     Sola Saraki University     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Saliu Ajia     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Federal Allocation     Crystal Corner Shops     Hamidu Olowo     Local Government Pension Board     CKNG     Garba Ayodele Wahab     2023 Elections     BECE     Abubakar Ndakene     Salman Alada     Orisa Bridge     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Ayo Salami     Sambo Murtala     Abraham Ojo     Yahaya Muhammad     Government High School Adeta     Olupako     Jamiu Oyawoye     Olofa Of Offa     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Ilorin Like-Minds     Share/Tsaragi     Otuka     Smart School     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Kwara State Football Association     Kola Shittu     Awili Pedro     Durosinlohun Kawu     Wole Oke     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Saidu Isa     Clara Nwachukwu     Elelu     Musa Yeketi     Micheal Imoudu     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Ayo Opadokun    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara Apc     Ilorin West     MalHub     Abubakar Suleiman     Pakata Patriots     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Gobir Organization Foundation     Saka Onimago     CCB     Yakub Lai Gobir     New Naira Notes     Taiwo Joseph     Baba Idris     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Boko Haram     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Sarah Alade     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Ilorin Innovation Hub     Lateef Alagbonsi     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     UITH     Village Alive Development Association     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Press Release     Rasaq Jimoh     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Turaki     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Olatinwo     Malete     Tunde Kazeem     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Aliyu Alhassan     Yusuf Ali     Shehu Jimoh     Sulyman Buhari     Jaigbade Alao     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Ajeigbe     Femtech     Onilorin     Ishola Abdullahi     Ibrahim Abiodun     Saka Adeyemo     Makama Of Ilorin     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Ahman Pategi     Ajibike Katibi     Edu     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Albert Ogunsola     Local Government     Towoju     Tunde Yusuf     Kunle Akogun     Olam Food Ingredients     Chief Of Staff     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Salihu Yahaya     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Bola Olukoju     Na\'Allah     Iliasu     Women Radio     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Fatimat Saliu     Toyin Saraki     Convocation Ceremonies     March 28     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Muritala Awodun