Police rescue 3-month-old baby reportedly stolen in Ondo

The Ondo State police command has found the three month old baby who was reportedly stolen from her mother’s shop in a town in the State on Saturday, January 2, 2021.

The Ondo State Commissioner of Police, CP Salami Amidu Bolaji disclosed this in a statement through the Command spokesman, ASP Tee-Leo Ikoro in Akure on Tuesday night.

The recovery was made three days after an apprentice with a fashion designers shop in Ondo town, Ondo state Temitope Adeniyi reportedly kidnapped the three month old baby girl.

Confirming the development in a statement, CP Abolaji stated that the feat was achieved through an aggressive manhunt made by operatives of the command to ensure that the little baby was found in record time.

The statement also quoted the state CP saying that understanding how the command worked, there was a limit to how much any criminal could operate in Ondo State and get away with it.

The statement further disclosed that the CP immediately ordered his men to unravel the mystery behind the disappearance of the little baby said to have been stolen by an alleged seamstress-in-trainee.

“It could only bring pain and mystery to whoever thinks he can carry out any criminal activity in Ondo State and get away with it as far as I command the policing and security architecture of this State”, Ikoro quoted the commissioner as saying.

The state police boss also commended the prompt efforts of his men in getting the baby back to her parents unhurt, while assuring residents of the state absolute swiftness in the policing system of Ondo State, because he has plunged into the system exceptional strategies to nip crimes in the bud.

According to the CP, nothing was more critical to him than the peace, safety and security of the good people of Ondo State, urging residents to always give useful information to the command for prompt action.