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.

Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Idofin     Ayinke Saka     Adamu Atta     University Road     Medview Airlines     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Iliasu     Femi Agbaje     Yaru     Curfew     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Umar Saro     Awodun     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Abubakar Atiku     Donatus Ejidike     Mufutau Olatinwo     Millennium Development Goals     Kayode Bankole     SWAN     Kwara Apc     General Hospital, Ilorin     Umar Sanda Yusuf     School Of Nursing     Kwara 2023     Dorcas Afeniforo     Seun Bolaji     IDPU     Agor Market     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     AIT Ilorin     Illyasu Abdullahi     Frootify     Abdulfatai Baakini     Akume     Ahmad Ali     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Yekeen Alabi     Oro Grammar School     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Kola Ologbondiyan     Yakubu Shaaba     LABTOP     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Akeem Olatunji     Facebook     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Obasanjo     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     EndSARS     Elections     Albert Ogunsola     Idris Garuba     Taofeek Sanusi     High Court     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Baboko Primary School     Wahab Isa     Ilorin International Airport     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Moronfoye     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Reuben Paraje     Funmilayo Oniwa     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Yemi Sanni     Olaitan Buraimoh     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Sebastine Obasi     Opolo Global Innovation Limited    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

University Road     Marafan Shonga     Basit Olatunji     Demola Banu     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Owo Isowo     Issa Oloruntogun     Abdulazeez Arowona     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Aliyu Muyideen     Ubandoma Of Ilorin     Mufti Of Ilorin     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Eleja     Atiku     Abdulkadir Orire     Orisa Bridge     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Waheed Ibrahim     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Farouk Salim     MMWG     Babatunde Idiagbon     Jani Ibrahim     Sadiq Umar     Galadiman Ngeri     Kwara Poly     Fatimat Saliu     Adeleke Ogungbe     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Salihu S. Yaru     Kola Olota     Fatai Olodo     Okin Malt     Yahya Mohammed     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Isapa     Kwara State Sports Commission     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Mazars Consulting     Saliu Ajia     Student Learning Support Helpline     Chikanda     QuickWin     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Biliaminu Aliu     Idiagbon     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Computer Based Test     Ilofa     Tunji Oyawoye     Ghali Alaaya     Ahmed \'Lateef     Eleyele     Ridwan Agboola     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Kabir Shagaya     Ike Ekweremadu     KWSIEC     Al-Hikmah University     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Gambari     Post-utme     Ahmad Ali     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Femi Ogunsola     Amoyo     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Aminu Ado Bayero     Moses Rahman Popoola     Binta Sulyman     Agor     Ojuekun Sarumi     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     JMK Construction Company Limited