Sunday, January 15, 2017

Boy, 14, runs away from Jos, sleeps under Ojota Bridge



Detectives attached to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, have rescued a 14-year-old at the Ojota area of the metropolis.

The teenager, Israel Solomon, was alleged to have fled his parent’s home in Jos, Plateau State and rescued yesterday evening by RRS at Ojota.
Solomon said that the bus, which conveyed him from Jos, got to Lagos late at Sunday evening. He added that he passed the night sleeping under the foot bridge at the Ojodu Berger Bus Stop.
Solomon, a Birom by tribe, was seen wandering Ojota Bus Stop, when the operatives decided to call him for questioning. He said that his parents live in Mango Junction, Opposite Gada Biyu, Jos.

He could not give reasons why he ran away from home. All entreaties to make him give reasons for his actions proved abortive.


He explained that he was trekking from Ojodu Berger to Ojota when the officer sighted him wandering, emphasizing that he knew no relatives in Lagos before embarking on the journey.
When policemen carried out a thorough check of his body, they didn’t notice any sign of physical abuse.
He also couldn’t give the phone contact of his parents or any of his relatives based in Jos, Plateau.

Solomon has been taken to Olusosun Police Station, behind Phillip, Ojota by the RRS Team.
It was gathered that radio signal would be raised to the closest police station to his home in Jos.

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