2-year-old Boy Abducted At Gunpoint

January 22, 2013

2-year-old Emmanuel Alonge

A 2-year-old boy was on Monday kidnapped at gunpoint while riding in his parents’ black Lexus SUV with registration number LSD 374 AV on his way to school. He was with the driver identified as Daniel, and a private Nurse when the incident happened. According to eyewitnesses, the four abductors wore masks and they had been in the vicinity for some time awaiting the arrival of their victim, adding that the black Mitsubishi Montero SUV which was later identified as the kidnappers’ was parked about seven buildings away from the victim’s house on arrival.
A source said, “Truly we noticed that the black Montero SUV was parked in the area but we did not suspect any ulterior motive because the occupants were playing and chasing one another around their vehicle.
“But when the SUV carrying the boy and others was approaching, they blocked the Lexus SUV. We noticed that the driver resisted the abductors but when they threatened to break the windscreen, he opened the door and he saw them carrying guns. They threw the nurse under the SUV car, snatched the boy and sped off in their car.”
Speaking to PM News, the nurse, Mrs Adeyemo said, “When I refused to surrender Emmanuel to them, the assailants hit me with their gun b*tt several times. I slumped and they threw me under our vehicle, snatched the boy and sped off in their SUV.”
Father of the boy and proprietor of Barachel Group of Schools, Mr Olusegun Alonge confirmed the abduction on Tuesday, lamenting, “Yes, my son was being taken to school when kidnappers seized my dear little Emmanuel Oluwatunmise Alonge”. He declined to speak further on the incident as he was emotionally overwhelmed, PM News reported.
Sources close to the Alonge family disclosed that Emmanuel’s parents had to wait fifteen years after marriage before giving birth to their baby boy who is now in the custody of the kidnappers.
Reacting to the abduction, Baale of Oluwo, the community where the Alonges live, Chief S. A. Sulaimon said the community was thrown into pandemonium when gunshots were heard during the kidnap incident on Monday. He therefore appealed to the state government to provide adequate security in the area.