Men of the Ondo State Police Command have apprehended a couple, Lukman Isiaka and his wife, Abosede Olanipekun, for allegedly stealing children across Ondo and Osun states.
The police said they have recovered ten of the stolen children, but some distraught parents who thronged the command’s headquarters lamented that their children were still missing.
The couple reportedly used various methods to abduct the children, selling each one for One Million Naira to one Sabina Izuorah, a 62-year-old resident of Ihiala in Anambra State.
Police investigators disclosed that the suspects may have been involved in similar crimes in Edo State before extending their operations to Ondo and Osun.
Many of the rescued children struggled to recognize their parents, as their names had been changed and they now spoke the Igbo dialect.
Four infants, aged between one and six weeks, whose parents remain unidentified, were recovered from Sabina Izuorah by the Ondo State Police Command.
The arrest of the suspects, Lukman Isiaka and his wife, Abosede Olanipekun, followed a police investigation into the abduction of a child reported missing by her mother.
