Woman arrested for abducting neighbour’s 1-month-old daughter

When Mrs. Funke Olowokere of Sobi Road, Ilorin, Kwara State, left her one-month-old daughter with her neighbour and friend, Funke Odelabi, last Sunday, little did she know that she would abduct the baby.

After Olowokere, who had been washing the baby’s clothes, discovered that Odelabi had disappeared with her baby, she was said to have raised the alarm which attracted neighbours who organised a search party for the missing girl and the suspect but all to no avail.


Parading the suspect on Saturday, the outgoing Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command, Mr. Agboola Oshodi-Glover, explained that after the residents failed to locate the suspect, the matter was reported at the police station.

He added that in the course of investigation, Odelabi was traced and arrested in Ogbomosho, while the baby was rescued and handed over to her parents.

Odelabi, who confessed to the crime, said, “I have no child of my own. This has been a burden to me as I really wish to carry my own baby. After all failed attempts to have a baby, I stole the child. The devil must have pushed me into doing this,” she said.