The police in Lagos have arrested a woman, in whose freezer a
six-year old boy, Treasure Akinsohun, was found dead, hours after he
was declared missing.
Treasure Akinsohun |
The freezer was normally used to sell water and soft drinks.
The command’s spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana confirmed the arrest on
Friday, saying that the corpse had
been deposited at the mortuary, while investigation was ongoing.
According to Elkana, on April 23, at about 8.30pm, one Eunice
Akinsohun of Oyedele Street, Alapere ketu, reported her six-year old
son, Treasure missing from about 9am.
He said the corpse of the boy, a day later, was found in a freezer,
inside the shop owned by Eunice’s neighbour, one Patience Odowo.
Patience’s shop was at 12 Orisigun Street also in Alapere.
Odowo was promptly arrested.
Sources had earlier said that Treasure and his mother lived in
Ikorodu and had gone to Ketu to celebrate the Easter holidays with his
mother’s younger sister.
It was gathered that Treasure and some children in his aunt’s compound
were playing when he suddenly disappeared, but his body was later found
inside the freezer at Orisigun Street, about five streets from where his
mother’s younger sister resides.
The bereaved mother, Mrs Eunice Akinsohun told journalists that she
noticed her son was not among the other children playing in the
compound.
She said when she asked for his whereabouts, the other children could not give an answer, forcing her to raise an alarm.
After a search for the boy was fruitless, she reported the boy missing to police at Alapare Police Station.
“I also called my husband on the phone to inform him of the
development. Before I got back home, a crowd had gathered at my sister’s
house at Alapere to help in the search for my son.
“Throughout that day we couldn’t locate the exact place where he was.
When my husband eventually arrived, he also tried his best with my
sister’s husband and some elders in the community.
“He was still not found. That was how we went back to Ikorodu that night in anguish,” she said.
The woman said she and her husband were on their way back to Alapere
from Ikorodu when they received a phone call that her son had been found
in a woman’s freezer at Orisigun Street.
“Immediately I saw the corpse of my son, I fainted. I was later
revived at the hospital. What surprised me was how my son got into a
freezer at another street.
“I still don’t understand how he got into the freezer as I speak with
you. But it is left for the police to investigate,” she said.
The father of the boy, Mr Ojo Akinsohun, said he was preparing to go
out when he received a phone call from his wife that their son was
missing.
“I heard that the night my son was missing, the daughter of the
freezer’s owner was sent to bring sachet water from the freezer, but she
didn’t find the boy inside. I was surprised how the boy got into the
freezer.
“I want police to investigate it and get to the root of the matter. I can’t allow my son to die in vain,” he said. NAN
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