The Lagos StatePolice Command has arrested four women Fausat
Ogidan, Abibat Oresanya, Bola Obajuruwa and Idiyat Abass for allegedly
abducting and selling a nine-year-old girl, identified simply as Blessing, for
N650,000.
Ogidan, who was with the nine-year-old girl, and collected
the sum on behalf of others, was arrested in the Gbagada area of Lagos.
Investigations revealed that
the girl was given to Ogidan by Obajuruwa, commonly known as Iya Alaje, who
lives in the Suberu Street, Alakuko area of Lagos.
Iya Alaje also confessed that she had told Ogidan to sell
the girl for N350,000 before she was caught.
She said, “I used to sell herbs in the Agege Market. I told
Fausat (Ogidan) to sell the girl forN350,000, but Fausat added N300,000 as her
own profit. The girl was sold to me by Idiyat (Abass) and her elder sister,
Abibat.
Obajuruwa, when arrested, had led the police to Abass and
Oresanya, who got the girl from her parents and connived to sell her.
Oresanya claimed that
Blessing’s mother had wanted to dispose of her and use the money obtained to
take care of her other children.
However, during interrogation, Blessing, who said her real
name was Yetunde, told the police that she was kidnapped from their residence
in Ibadan.
A relative, who identified herself as Funmi, claimed that Blessing was Obajuruwa’s
grandchild, and that she gave her out to a customer to assist in home chores.
She said,“There are about seven to eight children in this
house. They are all Iya Alaje’s grandchildren. So, it happened that when one of
her customers put to bed recently. She pleaded with mama to give her someone to
assist her.
Iya Alaje took Blessing, her seven-year-old granddaughter, to be
staying with her. The second day, Blessing ran away from that house, and told
the people who saw her that she had been kidnapped by the customer.
“That was why the police arrested mama and the customer,
saying they kidnapped the girl.”
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