The bereaved parents of six years old Treasure have told the agonising story of how their late son went missing and was later found in a trader’s freezer.
\nThe bereaved mother, Mrs Eunice Akinsohun, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), told journalists that she noticed her son was not among the other children playing in the compound.
\nShe said when she asked for his whereabouts, the other children could not give an answer, forcing her to raise an alarm.
\nAfter a frenetic search for the boy was fruitless, she reported the boy missing to police at Alapare Police Station.
\n\u201cI 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\u2019s house at Alapere to help in the search for my son.
\n\u201cThroughout that day we couldn\u2019t locate the exact place where he was. When my husband eventually arrived, he also tried his best with my sister\u2019s husband and some elders in the community.
\n\u201cHe was still not found. That was how we went back to Ikorodu that night in anguish,\u201d she said.
\nThe 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\u2019s freezer at Orisigun Street.
\n\u201cImmediately 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.
\n\u201cI still don\u2019t understand how he got into the freezer as I speak with you. But it is left for the police to investigate,\u201d she said.
\nThe 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.
\n\u201cI heard that the night my son was missing, the daughter of the freezer\u2019s owner was sent to bring sachet water from the freezer, but she didn\u2019t find the boy inside. I was surprised how the boy got into the freezer.
\n\u201cI want police to investigate it and get to the root of the matter. I can\u2019t allow my son to die in vain,\u201d he said.
\nMeantime, the police in Lagos say they have arrested a woman, in whose freezer a six-year old boy, Treasure Akinsohun, was found dead, hours after he was declared missing.
\nThe freezer was normally used to sell water and soft drinks.
\nThe command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana confirmed the arrest on Friday to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), saying that the corpse had been deposited at the mortuary, while investigation was ongoing.
\nAccording 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.
\nHe said the corpse of the boy, a day later, was found in a freezer, inside the shop owned by Eunice\u2019s neighbour, one Patience Odowo. Patience\u2019s shop was at 12 Orisigun Street also in Alapere.
\nOdowo was promptly arrested.
\nSources had earlier told NAN that Treasure and his mother lived in Ikorodu and had gone to Ketu to celebrate the Easter holidays with his mother\u2019s younger sister.
\nNAN gathered that Treasure and some children in his aunt\u2019s 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\u2019s younger sister resides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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