
A 47-year-old suspected kidnapper
seriously beaten at Abudu community,
Iyana Ilogbo, Ado-Odo Ota Local
Government Area of Ogun State, when
he was caught with four girls he was
taking out of the community to Ajah in
Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of
Lagos State.
Pm news reports that, the suspect,
Nurudeen Badmus, was caught by an
acquaintance of one of the girls who
demanded to know where the suspect
was taking the children to early in the
morning.When he couldn’t offer a
satisfactory explanation, the
aquaintance raised an alarm which
attracted other members of the
community
Badmus was beaten seriously by the
residents and was later taken to the
local chief’s (Baale) house where he was
interrogated.
The suspect told the Baale that he was
taking the children to Ajah in Lagos
State where he claimed they came from.
“They came to me for financial
assistance to enable them go to
Ajah in Lagos State. I was taking
them to Ajah when somebody
identified one of them. I am only
assisting them,” the suspect told
the large crowd at the Baale’s
house.
The kidnapped girls, however, denied
that they sought financial assitance
from the suspect. They claimed that he
picked them from the community and
told them that their parents were
witches and were planning to kill them.
One of the girls who identified herself
as Jumoke confirmed that the suspect
was taking them out of the community,
adding that they didn’t know where he
was taking them to.
“My name is Jumoke. I am 16
years old. Badmus lives near my
house. He told me my mother was
a witch and that she was planning
to kill me. He said I should follow
him to a town to escape being
killed. He warned me not to tell
my mother. I didn’t know the
place he was taking me to. He also
tried to rape me but I resisted
him,’’ she narrated.
The youngest of the girls who gave her
name as Nimota, 9 years old, said the
suspect picked her on the road.
“He picked me on the road and
told me that my mother was a
witch and was planning to kill
me. He said I should run away
with him. I don’t know where he
was taking me,” she said.
When the parents of the children
arrived the Baale’s house, they were
full of praises for the community. They
identified the suspect as a neighbour,
stressing that they didn’t know he was a
kidnapper.The Baale of the community
later invited the police at Sango Police
Station where the suspect was taken
and interrogated.
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