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.

Abdulazeez Arowona     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     IHS     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Idris Garuba     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Olusola Saraki     Bayo Onimago     Taiwo Joseph     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     11th Galadima     Kanu Agabi     Segun Adeniyi     Kwara Pdp     Olawuyi     Eleja     Buhari     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Cornelius Adebayo     Labaeka     Nigeria Computer Society     Convocation Ceremonies     Royal FM     ENetSuD     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     SSA Youth Engagement     Harafat E. Mukadam     Egbejila     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Owu Fall     Mohammed Abduraheem     Danladi     Maryam A. Garuba     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies     Bello John Olanrewaju     Aiyedun     Prince Bola Ajibola     Local Government Pension Board     Doyin Agbamu     Ashiru     Isin     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Idi-Ape     LEAH Charity Foundation     KWASSIP     Forgo Battery     CBT     Dan Iya     Kwara 2019     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Charcoal     ASKOMP     Isiaka Yusuf     General Hospital     Solomon Edoja     Kwara United     Haliru Yahaya     Toyin Saraki     Popo-Igbonna     Olohungbebe     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Tunde Kazeem     Seed Technologies     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Jamiu Oyawoye     Bank Of Industry     Ishaq Oloyede     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Haliru Dantoro     Yashikira     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Olaiya Lawal     Bamidele Aluko    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Bola Sagaya     Sam Okaula     Lotus Bank     Amada Jidda     Ibrahim Jawondo     Just Event Online     Quran     Kwara State Football Association     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Edu     Stephen Fasakin     Kawu     Olatunde Michaels     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Amuda Bembe     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Aminu Adisa Logun     Sardauna     Sidikat Akaje     Local Government Pension Board     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Olokoba     Arik     Idofin     Teachers Specific Allowance     United Nigeria Congress Party     Yusuf A. Usman     Apaokagi     Sam Onile     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Abdulwahab Oba     Mustapha Akanbi     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Firdaos Amasa     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Orisun Igbomina     Saheed Alakoso     Adeola Abraham     Yusuf Aiyedun     Lawal Jimoh     Adamu Attah     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Congress For National Consensus     Magaji Are     Bello Bature     Mahee Abdulkadir     Umaru Saro     Gobir Organization Foundation     Azeez Salawu     TESCOM     Ola Falade     ASKOMP     Lola Olabayo     Hausa     UNILORIN Alumni Association     Federal Polytechnic Offa     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Agbarigidoma     IFK     Funke Adedoyin     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Isaac Gbenle     MAI Akande     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Gbugbu     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     First Lady     Salman Alada     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Omotosho     Ronke Adeyemi