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.

Abdulsalam Firdaous Amosa     Erin-ile     Solomon Edoja     Ilesha-Gwanara     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Kwara Pdp     Salake     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Oloye     Suleiman Mora Omar     Olugbense     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Hamidu Olowo     PharmAccess Foundation     Memunat Monsuma     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Sunset Workers     Saad Omo\'ya     Amos Sayo     Saka Onimago     National Party Of Nigeria     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Patigi Regatta     Tsaragi-Share     Simon Sayomi     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Baakini     College Of Education     Muhammed Danjuma     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Muhammadu Gobir     Ubandawaki     Umaru Saro     Ayinke Saka     Ilorin Emirate     Omoniyi Ayinla     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Makama Of Kaiama     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Toyosi Thomas     Habeeb Saidu     Modupe Oluwole     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Sidikat Alaya     Ilorin East     National Democratic Congress     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Police Commissioner     Saheed Popoola     Nigerian Army     Belgore     Obayomi Azeez     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Mohammed Lawal     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Yemi Osinbajo     Inside Kwara     Olatunji Bamgbola     Sunday Otokiti     Mubarak Oladosu     Ndama Al-hassan     Al-Hikmah University     Ilesha-Baruba     Bluenile Associates     Moshood Bakare     Just Event Online     Islamic Development Bank     Lai Mohammed     Sarah Jubril     Mohammed Abduraheem     Taofeek Ibraheem     Kwara 2019    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Isau     Daud Adeshola     Olayinka Olaogun     Akanbi-Oke     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Nigerian Army     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Ahmed \'Lateef     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Sa\'adu Salau     Yetunde Balogun     Tuesday Assayomo     Ilorin International Airport     Edu     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Hassan A. Saliu     Mutawalle     Omotoso Musa     Democracy Day     Ibrahim Orire     Maja     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Samari     Issa Manzuma     Lanre Badmus     Oni Adebayo     COVID-19 Palliatives     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Jebba     Olatinwo     Ahmad Ali     Atiku Abubakar     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Clara Nwachukwu     Kolo     Okin Biscuits     Igbaja     Issa Oloruntogun     Basit Olatunji     Abdullahi Samari     Olaiya Lawal     Kola Ologbondiyan     KWIRS     Kwara Basketball Association     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Kayode Issa     Bank Of Industry     Pakata Patriots     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Okeose Christian Cementary     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     George Funsho Adebayo     Femi Agbaje     Doyin Agbamu     Ramat Oganija     Innocent Okoye     Kwara State Pension Board     Shettima Of Ilorin     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Kwara State Government     Emir Of Kano     Umar Danladi Shero     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Quarry Royal Valley     Akorede     Shehu Jimoh     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Aminat Omodara     Ayobami Seriki     Garba Idris Ajia     Mohammed Abdulahi     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade