It was a joyous mood at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Leke Orekoya, Lawanso, Surulere, yesterday when their
three kidnapped children were found at an uncompleted building at Akowonjo,
Egbeda Lagos.
How the kids were rescued remained a
mystery. While the police said that the kids were abandoned in the building
when the kidnappers knew police were closing in on them, a family source said
that the couple paid a ransom before the kids were allowed to go.
Recalling how they got the news of
their kids and dashed to retrieve them, Leke said: “Immediately we got a call
yesterday evening, we went straight to Akowonjo only to discover that our
children had been traumatized, badly treated and unfed. The three of them were
all naked! They had no clothes, sandals on them. There mosquitoes bites all
over their bodies. Their bodies were also covered with rashes. We took them to
Police College Hospital for treatment. They’ll be there until the doctor
discharge them.”
The children grandfather, Mr.
Elderson Adekunle Adeloko, said the abductors called the family yesterday to go
and pick the children at Egbeda after paying a sum of money to a particular
bank in Shagamu.
Asked how much was involved, Adeloko
said that the family would prefer to keep silent on that.
Adeloko advised parents against going
to internet to recruit housemaids.
His words: “I want to advise
parents, young mothers and would be parents not to recruit from all these
online advertisers. They are corrupt, not reliable, criminals and kidnappers
have over flooded the internets. Before you bring any housemaid to your house,
you must know her background very well, you must meet his parents or relatives
one on one.”
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