A group of gunmen have abducted a four-month-old baby near Oviri-Olomoro community, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta state.
Vanguard reports that a mother went with her baby to weed their farmland near the community in the company of her sister and her two children. After several hours of hard work the women started looking for a shelter to hide from a baking sun and have a lunch. Very soon they saw an isolated building situated at the outskirt of the community.
According to anonymous source, a middle aged woman appeared from the building and invited them into the house. When the hostess and her guests were having their meal, unsuspecting women entered the house. Shortly after, a black colored jeep approached the building.
Feeling danger, the eldest of the sisters immediately took her children and ran out of the house, while the other sister, who was then breastfeeding her baby, was still making efforts to escape when the jeep finally stopped.
The source further added that two strange men came into the house and ordered the scared woman to give them the baby at gunpoint. When the hoodlums succeeded in grabbing the child from her grip, they drove away to an unknown destination.
Unfortunately, media sources almost everyday report about cases of kidnappings or abduction around the country. Quite often police officers manage to trace and apprehend criminals as it happened in Delta state when a woman was arrested after she had sold her neighbour’s baby for the sum of N250,000.
But sometimes people empower security guards and take laws into their hands. Recently, the middle aged woman suspected to be a child thief was nabbed, stripped naked and beaten to death in Owerri, Imo State capital.
