I sell stolen children for ₦1,500, to augment my wages- The heartless Bricklayer

Ola Ibikunle was caught in the Oyero area of Ijoko, Ogun State, while strangling one Eniola, a 4-year-old girl he had just abducted, Punchng reports.

Eniola and her 11-year-old sister, Opeyemi, were following their father, Segun Quadri, to a church around 2pm on Tuesday. The father was said to have gone some distance ahead when Ibikunle ambushed the children and abducted Eniola.

Opeyemi, reportedly raised the alarm which caught the attention of some passersby. Ibikunle was reportedly met in an uncompleted building while trying to strangle the girl. An angry mob had beaten him up before the police arrived on the scene.

Ibikunle, from Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, told Punchng that Eniola was his second victim. His words: “I am a bricklayer, but I use child abduction to augment my wages. A man in the Sango area contracted me to always get children for him. I don’t know what he uses them for.

Last month, I abducted a boy of about three years and sold him to the man for N1,500. Eniola was the second child I would abduct, but I did not succeed.” The Ogun State acting Police P.R.O, ASP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Ibikunle would be further investigated, and the buyer, apprehended.