How 13-yr-old boy foiled kidnap attempt by 55-yr-old man

A 13-year-old boy is now a hero for foiling an attempt to abduct him and his friends by a suspected kidnapper.

Babatunde Samuel, a 13-year-old boy, is being hailed as a hero after he foiled the plans of a 55-year-old man, Ibrahim Abdulsalami, to kidnap him and his friends while playing football on John Ogunjobi Street, Suberu Oje in the Alagbado area of Lagos.

According to Punch Newspaper, Samuel and his friends, Tobi Ogunride, 8, and James Sogo, 11, were engaged in the game of soccer in the evening of Saturday, April 12, 2015, when Abdulsalami approached them and offered them N50, asking them to follow him to an unknown place but when the children refused the offer, Abdulsalami promised them other enticing gifts.

But the intelligent Samuel, suspecting foul play, sneaked out of the play ground and rushed to his home to inform his father of what was happening. The father quickly mobilised a few men and they rushed down to the play ground to confront the man.

It was learnt that initially, Abdulsalami denied the accusation but when he was taken to the Baale's palace, he owned up during interrogation and was subsequently handed over to the police.

He has been charged to court on charges of attempted kidnapping and conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace by the police after he reportedly confessed to the crime.

During his first appearance on April 13 before a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ijaiye-Ojokoro, the defendant was said to have pleaded guilty to the two counts preferred against him.

Abdulsalami was eventually handed three months in prison by the presiding magistrate, Mrs. O.A. Olayinka.