Operatives
of the Gender Department of Lagos State Police Command are currently
investigating a 26-year-old man for allegedly kidnapping a seven months
old baby.
Vanguard
learned that the suspect, identified as Happiness Umaru, was
intercepted at Eric Moore in Surulere by policemen attached to the Rapid
Response Squad, RRS, at about 10p.m. on March 16. It was gathered that
during interrogation Umaru initially claimed to be the biological father
of the baby. He later confessed that he found the baby around Ijora
Railway, when he went into a bush to answer the call of nature.
After
the case was transferred to the Gender Department for further
investigation, officers from the unit visited the scene of the incident,
where they located the biological mother of the baby.
According
to the mother of the baby, Patricia Victor, “I laid my seven months old
baby (Favour Victor) on the bed inside my house at about 8p.m., to buy
food for my son. “By the time I returned with the food for my older son,
my baby had disappeared. I raised alarm and neighbours joined me in the
search all thorough the night, but we did not find him.
“I did
not know that police officers had arrested the man who stole my baby.
Luckily, when they came the next day to investigate the case, they
located me.” The baby has been released to the mother, while Happiness
Umaru, the suspect, will be charged to court today.
Happiness is 26?Wow!..I wonder where he was stealing that Child to …PRAISE GOD!
Source: Vanguardngr.com