The operatives of Rapid Response
Squad of the Lagos State Police Command on Monday last week rescued two
teenagers fleeing the Abuja abodes of their parents and re-united them with the
parents on Friday.
The teenagers, Chidubem Amaechi, 13
and Chinedu Onyebuchi, 13 were rescued by the RRS operatives of Monday morning
after alighting from an Abuja bus at Ojodu Berger, Lagos.
The teenagers were sighted by the
officers wandering around Ojodu - Berger before they were invited for
questioning.
The children had lied to the
officers during interrogations that they were kidnapped and blindfolded before
they were driven to Lagos by their abductors.
They added that they escaped from
their abductors while they sleeping an under bridge before Ogun –Lagos long
bridge.
Inquisitively, the officer moved the
boys to the RRS Headquarters, where an investigation into their kidnapping was
launched immediately.
While the investigations were on,
officers suspected the children were lying about the kidnapping story.
Their parents, who have been looking
for the boys in Abuja since Sunday, May 14, 2017, were shocked when contacted
that their children were in custody of Rapid Response Squad, Lagos.
It took three days of questioning
before, Chidubem Amaechi opened up that he and Chinedu Onyebuchi, connived to
leave Abuja because of the poor states of the parents.
According to Amaechi, “we noticed
that our parents were suffering in order to take of care us. We decided to come
to Lagos and work for sometimes.
Whatever we were able to raise in
six months, we would handover to our parents for them to start business.
We realised that the hardship was
too much and that we would be helping them if we leave our families in Abuja in
search of better opportunities in Lagos, he stressed.
Amaechi added, I brought my N4,
200:00 savings while Chinedu added N500 as transport fare to Lagos.
We were already in Lagos before we
realised that we were simply being stupid. We were wandering about when the
officer invited us for questioning”.
The Commander, Rapid Response Squad,
ACP Olatunji Disu, who received the parents of the teenagers on the fifth day
of being in the Command’s custody in his office, appealed to parents and
guardian to monitor and take good care of their wards.
The boys were re-united and released
to their parents on Friday after they had promised not repeat their actions
again.
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