UPDATE: Police Rescue Boy Who Was Loaned For N8000 By His Parents
A few days ago, we brought you a report by Punch, narrating the sad incident of a boy Samuel who was used as collateral for his parents 8000 naira loan. Unfortunately for both Samuel and his parents, he found himself in the claws of child abductors, read here.
New reports have emerged on the case, stating that Samuel has been rescued from his abductors by the Lagos State Police Command. His parents and all those involved are currently being held at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba. A source in the station said the victim was loaned to a family in Mushin.
“It is a messy case. The parents used the boy to work and collected money. The woman passed him to another set of women who then passed him further to a 70-year-old woman. We rounded up all of them and transferred them to the SCIID where they will be prosecuted. The victim told us in his statement that his father was still alive and it was his stepfather and his mother that used him to make money because of poverty. He said where they took him to, they were using him like a slave. It is not true that policewomen from this division aided some of the suspects in the case. We have nothing to gain in it. It is an attempt to smear the division, which has been investigating some high-profile crime cases.”
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Olarinde Famous-Cole, said investigations were ongoing, adding that the suspects would soon be charged to court.
Thank God oh.
Good one
Folks have lost their minds