How We Get The Children We Kidnap – Suspect

A man who abandoned his bricklaying work to concentrate on children kidnapping, has narrated how he and his wife, normally get their victims.

43-year-old as Lukman Isiaka, a member of a child-kidnapping syndicate was amongst those paraded by the Ondo State police command yesterday.

Isiaka who works in concert with 23 year old Abosede Olanipekun, and 68 year old Mrs Sabira Izuorah, a former Director from the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in Anambra State narrated how they normally get the children they kidnap.

“The method my wife and I use to steal the children is when we are going, and we see any child roaming about, we call them and say we will buy soft drinks and biscuits for them.

“After telling them that, they will follow us. After walking for about 10 minutes, we will board a bike to the park, where we will board a vehicle to Anambra State to give Izuorah the children”.

The suspects also told police that they usually sold each stolen child for about N500,000 to their receivers.

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The confession is coming amidst police revelation that the 14 babies and toddlers with which the syndicate was nabbed, were stolen from Akure, Ondo State and Ilesa in Osun State.

They included four three-week old babies, two weeks old, two months old, and ten other children  recovered from Izuorah who claimed to operate an orphanage in Ihiala in Anambra State.

She told journalists at the Ondo State Police headquarters in Akure: “I have a registered orphanage. I took care of the children. The name of my orphanage is Clarion Children’s Care and Reforms Initiatives, and it started full operation in 2020.

“Lukman and his wife brought a total of 11 children to me. I don’t pay them; it is the adoptive parents who pay them.

“The adoptive parents don’t pay me; they give us food items and supplies.

“I stopped Lukman and his wife from bringing children for me in November 2024.

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“All the children were no longer with me, but I went to recover them from their adoptive parents. It didn’t start with me, and it will not end with me.”

On the other hand, Lukman said it was Izuorah who introduced him and his wife to the illicit trade after which he left his bricklayer work