Police detain man over theft of his child

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By Stephen Adeleye

A man who claimed that his five-day-old baby was stolen at gunpoint in his  home in Ijagbe,  Mopa-Muro Local Government Area, Kogi, is being held by the police as a suspect in the matter.

The man, Mr Tosin Ojuola, claimed that the baby was stolen 10 days earlier.

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the incident occurred about 8 p.m. on April 11 when the gunmen invaded the home of the Ojuolas and forced the wife at gunpoint to surrender the child to them.

At Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Lokoja on Sunday, Ojuola told NAN that he left home barely 10 minutes when the gunmen invaded his apartment, beat up his wife and took away the child.

“I left home and was on my way to church for vigil on that fateful night when I suddenly heard my wife’s voice crying and shouting for help.

”I quickly ran back to my apartment and my wife told me that two armed men had forcibly taken our baby away and run into the nearby bush.

”I…



Source: News Agency of Nigeria