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A 25-year-old apprentice, identified simply as Ayomide,  has allegedly kidnapped his boss’s two-year-old son  in Ajegunle area of Lagos  barely four days after  resumption. The abducted boy, David Sunday Ushie, was reportedly kept in the apprentice’s care by his mother, Mrs Ushie, in her fashion  designing shop  located on Saludi street, along Boundary road on September 17, 2015. But apprehension set  in when on arrival, her son and the apprentice were no where to be found. Concerted efforts made to reach Ayomide on the phone proved abortive .

The distraught mother could not speak with newsmen when contacted but her father, Mr Ogar Anyogor, explained that no call had been made to the family to demand for ransom for the release of his grandson. It was gathered that the case had been reported at  Ajeromi Police division, where the man who stood as surety to Ayomide had been arrested.

 Anyagor  said:  “Its been 10 days since the disappearance of my grandson. His mother is devastated. She has not had her bath since David was kidnapped. The cloth she is putting  on  now was the one she wore on the day David was kidnapped by Ayomide. ‘Nobody knows where Ayomide lives. He was introduced to my daughter by someone she had known for long. Ayomide only paid N5,000 of the amount requested. He had not even bought the drinks and other things needed before he would begin his apprenticeship. He promised to bring them on Friday, September 18, 2015, unknown to my daughter that he had a sinister motive up his sleeves.

Police sources, however, hinted that effort was still on to track Ayomide and rescue the kidnapped toddler

Meanwhile, A 52-year-old cobbler, Tope Ogunmodede, has committed suicide by hanging himself in Akure, the Ondo State capital, weekend. Report said the deceased, who had been having a mental health challenge, took his own life out of frustration at Lafe area of Akure. It was gathered that the family of Tope had been battling with his health challenges for 32 years. He was supposed to have gone for his routine medical check up last Thursday but had to be shifted to today because of the Eid-el-Kabir holiday.

The deceased, who had been staying on the same room with the mother because of his health challenge, was reportedly left at home alone on the day he committed suicide. It was gathered that the mother, identified as Comfort, left the house for an urgent personal engagement only to return hours later to behold the dangling body of his son. The mother was said to have been suspicious that something bad had happened when she got back home and failed to meet his sick son in his usual seat.

Eyewitness account said the mother searched the rooms in the house until she saw his dangling body in one of the rooms. She was said to have raised alarm which attracted the attention of neighbours who came over to help her bring down the corpse from its dangling position.