![]() It was six months after she left the church that we have been looking for her that I heard that she went to steal a child.” “I’m the one that she used to bring the kids to. He later told me that she is better but few days after he called again that he could not find her as she had left the church. “I later took her to a church where the pastor said I should pay N80,000. She was stacked naked when they brought her to me. She got sick and they brought her to me in Igbotako. However, the father of the suspected criminal who said that her daughter lied against him, #tated that she had been battling mental issue. I always ask the children when they are alone that where are they going and I hold their hand and they will follow me.” The first one was in 2021 and the second one this year. “I have been doing the business for about two years. People gathered to beat me and I was taken to the police station before I was moved to Akure.ĪLSO READ Court orders remand of JAMB official who claimed snake swallowed money “It was when I was taking the child away that the mother raised alarm. I picked the first child from Ilutitun and the from Ilowo. “He was the one that told me to always bring the children to him. I don’t know what he normally use the children for. I do use the money to take care of myself. “After delivering the kids to my father, he used to give me N30,000 for each operation. I was successful with the first two children I took but I was caught with the third one. I do kidnap little children and I always deliver them to my father in his house at Igbotako. The suspect, Adeola Omoniyi, disclosed that she had been delivering the kidnapped children to her father, Ilesanmi Omoniyi, who in turn pays her the sum of N30,000 for each operation.Īccording to the suspected kidnapper, who was paraded at the police headquarters alongside her father, she was apprehended at Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State while on her third mission.Ĭonfessing how she had been carrying out the crime, she said “I’m a kidnapper. He noted that media practitioners occupy important positions not only in helping to bring the knowledge of the application to the public, but also making use of it and helping others to understand how it could be deployed to further the fight against economic crimes including corruption.Ī 22-year-old suspected female kidnapper has revealed how she had been kidnapping toddlers in communities in Ondo State in the past two years. “With the Eagle Eye, Nigerians and Non-Nigerians can easily take a picture of a property suspected to have been fraudulently or corruptly acquired and report through the app seamlessly”, he said The EFCC Chief emphasised that the Eagle Eye App, would go a long way in aiding the reportage of fraudulent activities of individuals particularly in the case of money laundering through real estate. “With the App, those who hitherto were afraid to report corruption cases to the commission either for fear of being identified by the culprits or having their identities revealed, can now do so with the assurance of full anonymity”. He appealed to members of the public to take advantage of the App in bringing cases of corruption and economic crimes to the knowledge of the EFCC” “Apart from complementing the existing channels for reporting economic crimes, the unique advantage of this application is that it eliminates direct person-to-person interface in the reporting process and guarantees anonymity which is an added incentive to effective whistle blowing”. He added, “The Eagle Eye represents a new experience in information sharing and crime reporting between the public and the EFCC. He noted that it is an application that was conceived, designed and developed by the EFCC.Īccording to Bawa, the initiative is a clear demonstration of his pledge on assumption of office, to run an agency that is technology-driven.ĪLSO READ COVID - 19: CACOVID donates mobile x- ray machine, oxygen concentrator, others to Oyo govt. The EFCC boss described the App, the first by any law enforcement agency in Nigeria, as a product of ingenuity by a staff of the commission. Anybody that has malicious intent in the process of giving information to us will be dealt with according to the law”, he warned. ![]() He said informants wishing to provide verifiable tips and leads to aid its investigation are free to come under the whistle blower policy of the federal government. Abdulrasheed Bawa, warned against false information that could mislead the agency in its investigations.īawa declared that the full weight of the law would be brought to bear on purveyors of misleading information. Speaking at the launch of the online financial reporting platform in Abuja, the nation’s capital, its Chairman, Mr. Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday launched an online App, named Eagle Eye, designed to enable easy reporting of financial crimes by members of the public.
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