Ajibola Idowu, a 37-year-old man has
been arrested in Lagos for
kidnapping, Modupe Brown, his
landlord’s daughter.
Ajibola held Modupe a 400 level LASU
undergraduate bound for 3 years
during which he impregnated her.
According to Punch Metro, after
Brown had given birth to the child,
Ajibola refused to allow the child
access to immunisation. As a result,
the child was said to have contracted
polio disease and subsequently
became crippled.
Lagos Deputy Police Public Relations
Officer, Damasus Ozoani, told PUNCH
Metro that Ajibola, was arrested along
with his mother, Ebun, who allegedly
conspired with him to commit the act.
He said, “Brown, a 400 level student of
Business Administration at the Lagos
State University, was kidnapped by
Ajibola who kept her in captivity with
his family for “three years between
2010 and 2013.
“On September 19, 2013, policemen
from Area E Command, went to the
Sagamu area of Ogun State to rescue
the victim and also arrested the
mother of the abductor, who watched
over the victim. Ajibola was later
arrested in the Idumota area of Lagos
Island.
“During the three years, Ajibola kept
Brown in three locations -Oshogbo,
Osun State, where she spent six
months; Bariga, Lagos, where she
spent six months; and Sagamu, Ogun
State, where she spent about two
years.
“Ajibola forcefully impregnated Brown
while in captivity. She delivered a baby
girl, who later became deformed as a
result of Ajibola’s refusal to have the
baby immunised against the Polio
virus.”
While speaking with our
correspondent, Brown described her
ordeal in the hands of her abductor
as a journey through the valley of the
shadow of death. She said she was
abducted at her father’s house in the
Ebute Meta area of Lagos State.
She said, “ I can’t even remember how
he kidnapped me. All I know is that he
held me captive for three years. It’s as
if I was under a spell. Even when I was
going to give birth, he did not allow
me to go to a hospital. The baby was
delivered at home and he was the one
giving me medication.
“Even one day, when state officials
came to the area to immunise
children, he said he would not allow
the child to be immunised, saying the
drugs had been poisoned. Once,
when I tried to leave, he threatened to
kill me.”
PUNCH Metro learnt that during her
time in captivity, the victim’s parents,
who are retired civil servants,
searched hospitals, mortuaries, police
stations and churches for her all to no
avail.
The victim’s father, Idowu Brown, said
he had no clue that Ajibola was the
abductor. He said, “I never knew it
was Ajibola that kidnapped my
daughter. He was my tenant for six
years and greeted me every day. We
even used to share jokes. He was
aware that I had been looking “for my
daughter for three years but he never
said anything.
“When we could not find her, I
reported the matter at FESTAC Police
Division. It was in September this year
that we heard from our daughter for
the first time. She told us that she was
in Sagamu and my wife went there.
“There we met Ajibola’s mother. That
was how we found out that he
(tenant) was the one behind the
whole thing.”
The suspects however denied
abducting the landlord’s daughter.
Ajibola’s mother claimed her son and
Brown were lovers, who decided to
elope, maintaining that the case was
not an abduction.
She said, “They were lovers. I never
got involved in their matter until the
child was born. I went to stay with
them for about seven months to take
care of the child, who was very ill. A
few months after I left, they moved in
with me at my three-bedroom house
at Sagamu because they had been
evicted.
“Ajibola was not staying with us
because his business was in Lagos but
I was with Brown “most of the time.
Many times, I would ask her about
her parents and when I could meet
them but she kept on giving silly
excuses until the day her mother
came to my house with policemen.”
Ajibola, who is into satellite dish
installation, said the plan to elope was
hatched by Brown who paid N200,
000 into his bank account. The money
was said to have been meant for her
school project.
He said he could not understand why
she would make such allegations
against him.
“I did not kidnap her; we were lovers
and decided to elope. Even when she
was at my house, she used to make
calls to her relatives telling them that
she was alright,” Ajibola said.
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