Illness pushed me into stealing baby – Suspect

A kidnap suspect, Oluwatoyin Lasisi, who was paraded for stealing three-year-old baby, Nimotallah Sulaiman in the Muslim area of Ibadan,Oyo state, has blamed it on a life threatening sickness she has .

Lasisi during her parade on Monday said she did not know when she stole the baby from a waste dump and took her home .

Lasisi said, “I was going to where I beg for alms around a bakery in the Muslim area when I saw the baby. I reasoned that it won’t be good to allow her to be stolen by ritualists and that was why I picked her up.

“When I got to my house, a woman in my neighbourhood challenged me as to where I got the baby from. I was heading for the police station to report the incident when some people accosted me and started beating me.”

The father of the victim, Sulaiman Dauda, said his child was stolen from a waste dump, where she went to defecate around 11am.

The state Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, confirmed the incident and said the case was being investigated.