Ondo State Command - Radio Nigeria Ibadan Zonal Station

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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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Ondo State Command, has arrested nine dealers of illicit drugs and seized 1,292 kilograms of cannabis sativa and its seeds from them.

Addressing newsmen in Akure, the Ondo State Commander of the NDLEA, Mr Haruna Gagara disclosed that 711.5 kilograms of cannabis seeds were recovered from a forest in Ago Oyibo area of Ogbese, Akure North Local Government Area.

Mr Gagara pointed out that the seizure has prevented the mass cultivation of an estimated 250 hectares of cannabis sativa farmland in the state.

He explained that his operatives had earlier intercepted a vehicle loaded with 580.5 kilograms of the illicit drug along Ogbese-Owo road.

Some of the suspects arrested claimed they were unaware of the existence of the seeds of Cannabis Sativa seized from their house.

Kayode Animasaun