A serial kidnapping suspect has been detained, according to the Lagos State Police Command, and two victims have been reunited with their families.
The command made this known in a statement that was published on Twitter yesterday night and was signed by SP Benjamin Hundeyin, the force spokesperson in Lagos.
According to the command, Joy Kolapo, a 28-year-old female suspect, was apprehended in Oyo State after abducting her neighbor’s three-year-old boy, Bright, in the Ejigbo neighborhood of Lagos.
According to information acquired by the police, Kolapo held the boy (Bright) captive and demanded a N55,000 ransom from the parents before escaping to Oyo after collecting payment. However, prior to leaving the state, she picked up Bright at a friend’s store in Akute.
Kolapo allegedly also kidnapped Moses, a seven-year-old victim, while in Oyo and demanded N20,000 as ransom for his release.
The tweet read, “Following painstaking investigation and intelligence gathering into the abduction of a three-year old boy, Bright, on October 27, 2022 in Ejigbo area of Lagos State, detectives of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Lagos State Command, have arrested one serial kidnapper, Joy Kolapo ‘f’ aged 28.
“The suspect was arrested in Omi Adio area of Oyo state on November 12, 2022 with another victim, one Moses ‘m’ aged 7 whom she had kidnapped in Olopo Meta area of Oyo state.
“Investigation led to the rescue of Bright in Akute area of Ogun State same day the suspect was arrested. Further investigation revealed that the suspect was a neighbor to Bright’s parents and had received the sum of Fifty-Five Thousand Naira (N55,000) from his parents for his return.
“Thereafter, the suspect took the victim to her friend’s shop in Akute, begging her friend to babysit the child while she went shopping but never showed up again. The friend immediately notified the Police at Ojodu Abiosun Division in Akute of the abandoned child.
“The suspect then travelled down to Oyo state after leaving Akute, kidnapped another victim, one Moses, demanded and received the sum of Twenty Thousand Naira (N20,000) from his parents before she was eventually arrested.
“The boys have been rescued unhurt and reunited with their parents. Meanwhile, the suspect has since been arraigned.”
