Mr. Joseph Moses, a Nigerian Navy personnel who was said to have colluded with some hoodlums to kidnap his three-month-old baby and later threw him into the lagoon in Apapa, Lagos, has yet to be arrested.
Funny enough, the Lagos State Police PRO, Mr. Joseph Jaiyeoba, said there was nothing unusual about the strange development because the suspect was a military man.
“Something you must understand is that, there are procedures that need to be followed when a military personnel is accused of a criminal act.
“Even if he had been initially arrested, the police would still have to refer him to military authorities, who would exert their own disciplinary action before handing him over to the police,” he said.
It was gathered that two suspects in custody of the State CID - Peter Elias and Amadu Bello - had already made statements, accusing the naval rating for being behind the kidnap of the baby.
They also said the policemen at Ajeromi Police Station, Ajegunle, where the case was first reported, had released four other suspects in the case after they paid 20,000 each to the IPOs.
The duo, who said they did not know about the plan, noted that the suspects that were freed were actually the ones that aided Moses to carry out the plan.
The three-month-old baby, a love child between the naval official and a lady identified as Happiness was said to have been kidnapped on February 10, after Moses denied that he was the baby’s father.
The two suspects at the State CID confessed that Mr. Moses put the baby in a carton and threw her into the lagoon in their presence.
Also a motorcyclist, one Bello, in his confessional statement, said when they got to the Bridge, Moses got down and threw a carton in the lagoon. Bello said it was after they arrested him that he learnt the carton Moses threw in the lagoon contained his baby.
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