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.

Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Muhammadu Gobir     Harmony Holdings     Folorunsho Alao     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Iliasu     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Roheemat Hammed     Iyabo Adewuyi     Shettima Of Ilorin     Aremu Bose Deborah     Aliyu Salihu     Kayode Ishola     Aisha Gobir     Okin High School     Kwara Poly     Okin Malt     Shuaib Jawondo     Gabriel Fashanu     Abdulwahab Ololele     Tunde Kazeem     Mustapha Akanbi     Senate President     TVC Female National Debate     Democracy Day     Najim Yaasin     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Kwarareports     Bursary     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Omu Aran     Aliyu Muyideen     Adanla-Irese     Ilorin International Airport     Eleyele     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     NaAllah     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Oko-Olowo     Durbar Festival     Royal FM     Kwara Restoration Project     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Minimum Wage     Ola Falade     Idris Garba     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Akume     Oja-Oba     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Abdulquawiy Olododo     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Bashirat Bola Bello     TETFUND     Okin Group     Idowu Aremu     Sam Okaula     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Yemi Osinbajo     Gobir Organization Foundation     Fulani     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Niyi Osundare     Oloje     Fatai Olodo     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Bashir Adigun     Mope Dasuki Belgore     Sunset Workers     Rueben Parejo     KWATMA     Musa Alhassan Buge     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Shero    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Quran     Roseline Oni Aremu     Salihu Ajia     Muhammadu Gobir     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Barakat Community Secondary School     Valsolar Consortium     International Aviation College     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Tinubu Legacy Forum     National Pilot     Owo Isowo     Amada Jidda     Valsolar Consultoria     Al-Adaby     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     CT Ayeni     Noah Yusuf     Yashikira     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     United Nigeria Congress Party     Kwara 2019     Bola Tinubu     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Olayinka Olaogun     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     The Herald     Funmilayo Zubair     COVID-19 Palliatives     Alfa Belgore     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     JMK Construction Company Limited     Ajuloopin     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Damilola Yusuf     Lukman Adeloyin     Jumoke Gafar     Tanke     Hassan Saliu     Ilorin South Constituency     Salman Suleiman     Suleiman Mora Omar     Balikis Jawondo     Patience Jonathan     Shettima Of Ilorin     Bisi Kristien     Baba Issa Awoye     Adebayo Salami     Sheikh Alimi     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Isiaka Oniwa     Communication Network Support Services     Alabere     Saeedat Aliyu     KWSUED     Kola Olota     NULGE     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Cassava Growers\' Association     Sam Okaula     Tayo Awodiji     Abdullahi Samari     Folorunsho Erubu     SSA Youth Engagement     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Owo Arugbo     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Balogin Alanamu     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Yetunde Balogun     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     PharmAccess Foundation     Towoju     Eghe Igbinehi