Police authority in Lagos said on Saturday that it has granted the two officials of OLX, an online retail-marketing outfit, used by Mary Akinloye, the notorious nanny who abducted the Orekoya kids in Surulere Lagos, penultimate Tuesday bail. But officials of the online retail outfit have continued to live in denial of the incident.
In an email message, the Brand Marketing Manager, OLX, Fifemayo Aiyesimoju, said: “We noticed you published an article on your website which states that OLX staff were arrested by the police regarding the kidnapping of the Orekoya kids. This article is false kindly remove it from your site. Thanks for your cooperation”.
However, while Aiyesimoju was busy denying and fussing over our story, police have pounced on OXL staff, quizzed them and granted them bail. They were asked to report back on Monday.
This is even as detectives said they were closing in on Mary Akinloye’s husband and her brother, following the suspect’s naming of the duo in a confessional statement as her business partners. According to a Police source at the Lagos State Police Command Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS), “Police detectives are closing in on the two accomplices.”
The Police source who confirmed this to our Correspondent in a telephone chat, added that OLX management would also be contacted formally to come and clear the air on series of other criminal activities reported against its platform.
The two OLX staff arrested had been asked to report back next Monday. “Investigation has just begun and we picked them up on Friday in connection with the suspect’s (Mary Akinloye) confessional statement. They have been asked to report back on Monday for further questioning,” said our Police source.
OLX is a South African owned multinational company. Mary Akinloye, confessed to the Police that “the Orekoya kids kidnap episode would be the second in the series and also the second time I would be using OLX platform to carry out.”
Police said it has contacted OLX over criminal activities on their platform, “but management of the company did not show enough will to assist us in tackling the menace. But I think with this Nanny’s case, they would sit up now.”
