Man Hijacks Church Member’s Car With A Year-Old Baby Inside

Kwara State police command arrested a middle aged man on Friday in Ilorin after he hijacked a car with a 12-month old baby on Thursday night, Tribune reports.

The baby’s mother had agreed to help the man from her church to Diviland area of Gaa-Akanbi, when the incident happened. The man was said to have later hijacked the car with the baby inside and drove away.

A manhunt was immediately launched by the police. It was learnt that the man later abandoned the baby at Akerebiata area and drove back to Asa Dam area, where he parked to spend the night with his girlfriend. .

Narrating her ordeal, the woman said: “We had just finished the communion service and then this man came up to me asking that I help him up to Diviland, which is just near my own house.

I agreed to help him and just as I took the turn to our house immediately after Diviland, he brought out a knife and asked me to surrender the car. .

I struggled with him for sometime because I noticed that the knife he carried was not a very strong one but there was nobody to come to my aid. He later pushed me out and that was when people around realised something was wrong so they came but he had already sped off.”