Crime

Police Break Up Syndicate, Recover 10 Children

By Leke Adegbite

The Ondo State Police Command has apprehended three members of a syndicate whose speciality is in child stealing and trafficking.  

The Commissioner of Police, Ondo State Command, Mr Olutokunbo Afolabi, who paraded the suspects in Akure, said the suspects through intelligence-led policing were traced to Ottah Village in Edo State and Ihiala in Anambra State, where they were arrested.

Mr Afolabi who listed the suspects to include; Lukman Isiaka, Abosede Olanipekun and the head of the syndicate, a 62-year-old woman, Sabira Izuorah, who was in possession of the stolen children in Anambra before she was nabbed.

The Commissioner of Police disclosed that Sabira purchased the children from the two other suspects at the rate of 500,000 naira per child while she sells to the final buyer at the rate of one million naira per child.

The police boss said some children are currently on the missing list while efforts are ongoing to rescue them, and the suspects will be charged in court upon completion of the investigation.

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