Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have confirmed the arrest of an alleged 28-year-old female serial kidnapper, Joy Kolapo, in Oyo State following the kidnap of two boys in Lagos State.
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The development was confirmed by the Command’s spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement issued on Sunday.
According to Hundeyin, the suspect kidnapped a three-year-old boy, simply identified as Bright, in Lagos and a seven-year-old boy in Oyo State.
He said: “The suspect abducted the three-year-old boy on October 27 at Ejigbo area of Lagos State.
“She was arrested at Omi-Adio near Ibadan on November 12 with another victim, a seven-year-boy whom she had kidnapped at Olopo Meta in Ibadan.
“Investigation led to the rescue of the three-year-old boy at Akute area of Ogun the same day the suspect was arrested.”
Hundeyin added that investigation revealed that the suspect was a neighbour of the boy’s parents from whom she received N55,000 as ransom money to return the child.
He added: “Thereafter, she took the boy to her friend’s shop at Akute and begged the friend to babysit the child while she went shopping, but never returned.
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“The suspect travelled to Oyo State after leaving Akute, kidnapped the seven-year-old, demanded and received N20,000 from his parents before she was eventually arrested.”
Hundeyin added that the suspect’s friend, with whom she dropped the three-year-old, notified the police at Ojodu Abiodun Division in Akute about the abandoned child.
He stated also that the two abducted children were recovered unhurt and had been reunited with their families.
