Photo: How A 2-Year Old Baby Was Saved From People Who Bought Her After She Was Kidnapped

The women above are Grace Onye (r) ( a 52-year old woman
who buys kidnapped children) and her friend who needed a
child.
Detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department,
Panti, Yaba, Lagos, western Nigeria have intensified efforts to
recover all the stolen babies allegedly bought by an Onitsha-
based human trafficker who was arrested in Lagos last
Monday for purchasing a stolen two-year old baby.
This followed the confessional statement made by the
trafficker, Mrs. Grace Onye, 52. Onye told the police that she
specialises in the illegal business of buying babies in Lagos
for sale to those who required them.
In her confession, she admitted that it was not her first time of
coming to Lagos to buy babies, adding that she had been
coming to Lagos to buy babies in the past three years. She
told the police that she sold all the babies to those in need,
especially barren women.
She was arrested along with her customer, 45-year old Mrs.
Ngozi Ikeh who is barren and needed a child.
They were arrested at Ikotun in the morning while going back
to Ontisha with a stolen baby sold to them for N300,000 by
their contact man who is now at large.
The suspects confessed that they had a contact man simply
identified as Samuel who usually lodged them at Francis Inn
Hotel located at Abiola Adeyemi Street, Igando Road, Ikotun
whenever they are in Lagos to buy babies. Grace confessed
further that it was in that hotel that Samuel brought the baby
and collected N300,000.
Joy Olowolade, the two-year old stolen baby was allegedly
kidnapped at 6, Oladunjoye Street, off Igando Road, Ikotun
Lagos.
Samuel abducted the baby at the stated address in a dramatic
form around 4 p.m. on Monday when he threw a banger in the
compound where Joy was playing with other kids.
The sound of the banger caused confusion in the compound
and the children ran away in different directions. When the
dust settled, Joy was nowhere to be found.
Her elder sister, Eniola Olowolade, after a frantic search for
her, alerted her parents, Ayodele and Funke Olowolade, of her
disappearance.
Funke explained that one of her neighbours confirmed that she
saw the man who snatched the baby during the confusion that
greeted the explosion of the banger.
Olowolade and neighbours later arranged themselves in
groups to look for the missing baby. They searched for Joy in
every house and street in the neighbourhoods but could not
find her.
Narrating her experience, Funke stated: "It all happened like a
dream, Joy told me she was hungry and I was preparing her
food when she went out to play with her friends in the
compound. Within the twinkling of an eye Eniola rushed in to
tell us that somebody threw a banger in the compound and
everybody ran away. She said she didn't see Joy when the
commotion died down.
"We searched all the nooks and crannies till midnight. She
was nowhere to be found," Funke said.
At about 4 a.m. the following day, the Olowolades and their
neighours moved round the streets again looking for Joy.
They saw a woman walking briskly and carrying a baby on
her back with her friend. Somebody shouted the name of the
missing baby and Joy answered 'ma.'
Immediately the baby answered, the trafficker and her friend
ran. They tried to drop the baby but they were caught by the
rescuers. They were beaten and later handed over to the police
at Ikotun division who transferred them to the SCID for
further investigation.

Via: Pm News