The euphoria of the feat by the Police in rescuing the three kidnapped Orekoya kids had barely settled when the Police in Lagos Thursday announced the arrest of one, Mary Akintoye, the nanny who allegedly kidnapped the trio.
This even as Police rescued yet another kid victim allegedly held in captivity in the suspect’s house at Shasha area of Lagos, during a raid at about 9.00am on Thursday, by officers and men of the Lagos State Police Command Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS).
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, has said the police have arrested Mary Akintoye, the 23-year-old nanny, who kidnapped three children in the Surulere area of Lagos State.
Recall that the three kidnapped children were found in Lagos State where they were taken hostage. The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Kayode Cornelius Aderanti, has however narrated how they were found.
According to him, using the best technology in town, they the police had tracked the phone calls between the kids’ family and their abductors and narrowed it down to Shasha area. The heat was on the abductors who on sensing that the police were on their trail, abandoned the kids in their den. The police were able to locate the house and rescued the kids. When he was asked if the ransom was paid, the CP said no.
In his words: “Along the way, we have been tracking the phone number and we traced the number to Shasha area of Lagos State. The heat was on and the kidnappers knew we were on their trail. We used the best technology to get the location.
“They had to abandon the kids and ran away. No ransom was paid because we don’t encourage ransoms being paid in such situation. When you are employing people you don’t know, please run a detailed background check on the person and let the police be aware.”
The CP who narrated some previous related happenings said that most elite in Nigeria employ people they don’t know and it is very disturbing!
It gathered that the suspect has confessed to be responsible for the kidnapping of two kids also in Magodo, a Lagos highbrow residential area, in February this year. Police source said ransom was paid to her in that kidnap.
“She used to stay on the Lagos Island before, but when she made that money from the Magodo kidnap, she relocated to Shasha area of Lagos. She also bought a car from the proceed of the kidnapping.”
Police source added also that, the Lagos State Police Command may pounce on the owners of OLX, an online retail marketing outfit, through which Akintoye, used to perpetrate her crime. “I cannot disclose what we are going to do to them on the pages of newspapers, but I can tell you that we would take them on, because this is getting too much of them. In the last three months, we have received series of reports of criminal dealings against OLX, I think it is time to cut them to size,” the senior Police officer said.
