A suspected ritualist was, weekend, apprehended at Iyana
Iba market in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping three children.The suspect
allegedly took the children, aged four, six and seven years, on the pretext
that she wanted to buy biscuits for them. Speaking on the incident, the mother
of the children, Mrs. Iyabo Lawal, said: “I was in the shop when the man passed
the first time, I didn’t know he was monitoring my kids who were playing with
my mother in her shop.“I was busy attending to customers and didn’t notice when
my children followed him. I thought they were still playing in my mother’s
shop, not knowing that a stranger had taken them away. “Some people, who saw my
children with the man at the end of Iyana Iba road, questioned him on what he
was doing with the children and he told them he was going to buy something for
them.“When he could not answer the neighbours satisfactorily, they raised alarm
and people gathered and started beating him. The Children and their grand“ At
this time I had started looking for my children when someone alerted me that
they had seen them with a man at the other side of road.”It was gathered that
but for the intervention of mobile policemen attached to CTU Base 2, Anti
Terrorism, Ikeja, the mob would have lynched the man. The suspect, who
identified himself as Ihenacho and claimed to be a security man at Alaba
International Market, refused to disclose what he was doing with the
children.The suspect was later handed over to policemen from Ojo Police
Division
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