An unknown woman has stolen a two-month-old baby from his mother in Ado
Ekiti, capital of Ekiti State.
The incident occurred at the State Secretariat in Ado Ekit metropolis.
Witnesses said the woman tricked the baby’s mother to follow her to the
State Secretariat to collect some relief materials being given by government to
flood victims.”On getting there, she sent the mother to help her to procure
recharge card but ran away with the baby before the arrival of the woman.
Narrating her ordeal, the woman who
was drenched in tears explained that the
abductor whom she suspected to be from the Eastern part of the country, had
been patronising her consistently at the Oja-Oba Market, where she sells soup
ingredients.
She said the woman informed her on Wednesday that she would take her to the
State Secretariat where her husband works and that the husband would facilitate
the relief materials for her.
The woman, who preferred to be anonymous, explained that the woman came to
her shop with a list of possible beneficiaries and included her name making her
to believe that she was being favoured.
According to her, “the woman who had become a regular customer had this
morning invited me to the Secretariat and pretended to be waiting for someone,
having entered one or two offices under the pretence of making some
arrangements. She later took my baby and set from me and asked me to go and buy
recharge cards and before I came back, she had fled with my baby”, she
lamented.