Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command, have arrested three members of a syndicate who specialised in stealing children from their unsuspecting parents.

According to the command, the syndicate’s mode of operation is to use two of their members to disguise as couple looking for an apartment to rent most especially in a place where children of their interest reside.

The Command said the syndicate have succeeded in stealing eight children from different location across the state and sold them to their prospective buyers in Anambra State consequent upon which the Command launched serious manhunt for the syndicate.

Its Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi said the Anti-kidnapping/Cultist Unit who were given the mandate to crack the syndicate embarked on high technical investigation which paid off when the principal suspect one Mary Paul was tracked to Ondo State where she was presently on trial and remanded in prison custody.

Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said through synergy with Ondo Command, relevant information was extracted, which led to the arrest of three other members of the gang who were directly involved in stealing of Eight children across the state and three out of those children were subsequently recovered from them.

According to him, the suspects are:- Kate Njoku, Joy Okorie and Onyeka Joseph; One of the children recovered from them ‘’Temidayo Ajayi” who was abducted with his brother in Sagamu since July last year has been reunited with his parent, while efforts were on to recover his brother from the gang.

He said the suspects have all made useful statements to the Police on how they stole the children and sold them to their accomplices in Anambra State.

Meanwhile, Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, has ordered a thorough investigation of the case with the view to bring other members of the syndicate to book.

He equally appealed to parents to take the security of their children serious by not leaving their wards to the care of a total stranger.