Man arrested for holding girl hostage for 3 years

JULIANA FRANCIS
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping a girl and holding her hostage for over three years.
According to the police, before the victim, Modupe brown, 30, was rescued by the police, she had already been sexually assaulted by the suspect, Idowu Ajibola, 37, impregnated and had a baby girl. The baby was however physically challenged.
While Ajibola insisted that he did not kidnap Modupe, stressing that they were lovers and agreed to elope together, Modupe countered that she was kidnapped and later hypnotised by the suspect.
The suspect said the plan to elope was hatched by Modupe, who paid N200, 000 into his bank account. The money was said to have been meant for her school project.
The suspect was said to be a tenant in the compound of the victim’s parents and when the girl disappeared, Ajibola was among sympathisers who went with them to hospitals, mortuaries, churches and police stations in search of their missing daughter. They were shocked to later discover that Ajibola was the person allegedly holding their daughter hostage.
Narrating the genesis of the whole drama, the Deputy Police spokesman, Ozoani Damasus said: “A 400level student of Business Administration, at the Lagos State University, Modupe, was kidnapped nu Jibola and kept in captivity and incommunicado with the family for three years. That is 2010 to2013. On September 19, 2013, about 10am, based on information, the Area Commander, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Mr. Dan Okoro sent decoy detectives from Area E Command Headquarters, Festac Town to the flash point, Shagamu, Ogun State to rescue the victim from the hide out and consequently arrested one Ebun Idowu, mother of the abductor who watched over the victim.
“The abductor/kidnapper was thereafter arrested at Idumota Lagos Island on a tip-off. The suspect cunningly camped the victim at three different locations during the period of the incarceration. She was camped at Oshogbo in Osun State for six months, at Bariga area of Lagos for another six months and Shagamu in Ogun State for over two years.”
Damasus further explained that Ajibola, a primary school dropout, forcefully impregnated the victim, while she was in his captive and had a disabled baby girl with neck and leg deformities as a result of the abductor’s refusal to have the baby immunised against polio virus.
“The parents of the victim, Mr and Mrs Brown, who are retired civil servants, were thrown into psychological trauma for three years when they were visiting hospitals and mortuary, churches and police stations in search of their daughter but all to no avail.”