I stole 2 babies to impress my lover- suspect

LAGOS— 42-year-old Zainab Salisu, who stole two children, told
newsmen, yesterday, at Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, that
she needed the babies because she had a miscarriage, but needed
to show her lover evidence of the pregnancy she claimed was his.
However, Zainab’s lover, Saheed Akinwale, a father of three, said he
only met her last year, adding “few months after we started dating,
she said she was pregnant for me and wanted to travel to the
United States to deliver the children.
“I assisted her with N250,000. While she was outside the country,
she kept calling me with a private number. I never suspected that
she was in Nigeria, or that she never had a child.
“Three weeks ago, she called that she was back in the country and
I went to her place to see the twins she claimed were mine. I am
innocent. I know nothing about this crime.”
Her confessions
On how she stole the babies, Zainab said: “I stole Feyitola because
I had miscarriage and I did not want my lover, Saheed Akinwale,
who gave me N250,000 to process my travelling documents to the
United States, where I told him I was going to deliver the baby, to
find out the truth.”
On the second child, she said: “I did not steal Philip. His mother
died four months after his birth and his father, who is my uncle,
asked me to take care of him. It was after I stole Feyitola that I told
Akinwale that I had come back to the country with the twins.”
The two infants, one-year-old Feyitola Lawal, and Taye (not real
name) had been rescued by operatives of the Lagos State Criminal
Investigations and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Yaba,
Lagos. Vanguard gathered that Feyitola Lawal was abducted on
May 16 by Zainab Salisu, who reportedly introduced herself to the
baby’s grandmother as the owner of a poultry farm, who would love
to supply them eggs.
It was gathered that Zainab, who claimed she was new in the area,
Abule-Ijoko, became friendly with the Lawals and abducted their
child after gaining their trust. Zainab, who said she needed to buy
souvenirs for her children’s birthday, disappeared at Agege Bus
Stop with Feyitola, whose mother had accompanied her.
The case was then reported to all the police divisions at Area G,
Ogba, and later transferred to SCIID, Yaba, Panti, for further
investigation. Seventeen days later, Zainab was tracked down
through her phone and arrested with another eight-month-old baby
boy simply called Taye.
Baby's mother tells her story
Mother of the toddler, Lawal Damilola, 25, who claimed she met
Zainab at her mother-in-law’s shop, where she claimed to be new
to the area and needed a Church where she would be
worshipping. She said: “My mother in-law directed her to our
Church and on Sunday, she came to worship. She came back to the
shop two days later.
“This time, she said her children wanted to celebrate their birthday
and that she was to buy souvenirs, pleading that I should
accompany her. I carried my baby and we went to Justrite
Supermarket. “She said she did not find any souvenir that she liked.
Later, she offered to help me carry Feyitola and then disappeared
with my baby.”
Parading the suspects, the command spokesperson, SP Dolapo
Badmus, said that the police swung into action immediately the
case of child abduction was reported at the Divisions in Area G,
Ogba, and the SCIID, Yaba. Badmus said the investigation paid off
as the suspect and one Saheed Akinwale were arrested, with
another stolen child recovered from them.