LAGOS— An unidentified man kidnapped a 10-year-antique boy, who was on an errand for his mom, and exchanged him for three bags of rice in Ijegun region of Lagos.
The suspect, now on the run, reportedly accosted the sufferer (names withheld), weekend, at Prince Bus stop, Isheri Oshun, even as at the errand for his mother.
He became said to have added himself to the unsuspecting boy as a relative.
In an obvious pass to persuade the boy, the stranger, accompanied him to the shop in which he became sent to buy a bottle of groundnut oil and thereafter, took him to a store wherein he accrued 3 baggage of rice.
He convinced the salesgirl, recognized simply as Deborah, that he changed into going to get the money, even as his brother remained with her.
however, that became no longer to be as the salesgirl waited with no end in sight without seeing the stranger or the cash for the bags of rice, which totalled N48,000.
The transaction
talking with vanguard , the salesgirl stated: “ while the man came to the store with the boy, he requested how an awful lot became a bag of rice. I instructed him it become N16,000 and he left with the boy, saying he became going to tell the woman that despatched them.
“Moments later, he came lower back and stated that he wanted baggage. once more, he referred to as the purported man or woman that sent them on cellphone and counseled that they should add one extra bag.
“After the call, he informed me to assist him get a tricycle that would carry the 3 baggage of rice to fire Junction, in which he claimed the proprietor was. He stated the boy will stay with me even as he went to get the cash.
“After watching for near one hour with out seeing him, I advised the boy to take me to his mum’s keep at the said fire Junction.
“however he said that his mother did now not very own a shop there and that the stranger simplest met him on the road and brought him to the store.
“It was at that factor that I knew I have been robbed. I alerted my neighbour, who stated that the stranger should have used the boy as trade for the bags of rice.”
meanwhile, apprehension had set in on the boy’s residence after his disturbed mother visited the store, only to be informed that his son had left with a stranger.
even as a seek birthday party changed into combing the region for the boy, the owner of the shop and the salesgirl, had been sighted taking him to the Isheri-Oshun Police department.
at some point of interrogation, the boy told his mother and father: “After getting back from the store, the stranger asked if I knew in which they promote luggage of rice. I advised him they were selling close to our house.
“but he stated he did now not want to shop for there that I ought to comply with him to buy somewhere else.
“I accompanied him because he brought himself as my cousin. He accumulated the cash I had with me to pay for the fare and instructed me to attend at the store, that he would come and take me back home after dropping the bags of rice.”
The Police, but, launched him to his dad and mom equal day with a directive to record lower back to the station the day gone by, where a meeting among the boy’s mother and father and owner of the shop who insisted on getting the money for the bags of rice.
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