A 35-year-old man, Alliu Abdullai, who sells barbecued
meat, popularly called Suya, has been arrested over attempt to murder a
four-year-old child, who was abducted at White Sand Market, Otto, Ebute Meta
area of Lagos State.
However, a man reportedly accosted Abdullai and
immediately raised the alarm. During the struggle to rescue the knife from
Abdullai, Police said he inflicted a cut on the good Samaritan.
Lagos State
Commissioner of Police who paraded the suspect alongside his two relatives, at
the Police Officers Mess, Ikeja, yesterday, said: “The child has been reunited
with her mother, while the kidnapper and would-be murderer will be arraigned in
court.”
However, when approached, the suspect could only mention
his name, but could not express himself in English Language. ‘He had an
accident as a child’ His relative, Akilu Isa, who was also arrested, claimed
that he (Mohammed) was insane. According to Isa, “he (Mohammed) is my brother.
He is not mentally stable. He had a shock while he was a child, which affected
his brain.
At times, he would behave normal and at other times he would behave
abnormally.
“We all sell roasted meat (Suya) at the market. On that
fateful day, the mental disorder gripped him. He immediately picked up the girl
and at the same time, lifted a knife which he uses for Suya. “At that point I
beckoned on my other relative, Salisu, to come to the girl’s aid. We
immediately gripped him and succeeded in retrieving the knife from him.
Thereafter, we tied him with a rope.
“I was even the person that told a crowd, who attempted
to beat him, to call the Police to arrest him. “When the Police came, they took
him away. But to my surprise, when I went to the station with the chairman of
our section, I was arrested with another relative of ours. As I speak, I don’t
know the reason why I am arrested.”
Source:Vanguard
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