Hargeisa: Egal Airport Immigration Officers Arrest Four Suspects, Recover Stolen Baby
Hargeisa, Oct 20, 2013 (SDN) -Immigration department officers in Hargeisa’s Egal international airport have recovered a six-month-old baby reportedly stolen from the Gulf countries. The abducted toddler was found at Egal airport while the kidnappers were trying to traffic the baby to Somalia via Mogadishu-bound flight. Egal airport immigration boss Major Abdi Sulaiman Adam, who briefed DAWAN newspaper on Friday said the airports immigration department arrested six suspects in connection with the incident.
Major Abdi said the incident took place the seconday of Eid-al-Adha (October 16) in Egal airport when the stolen was recovered. Major Abdi also said that the suspects including elderly women would soon face the full wrath of the law. The officer, Major Abdi Suleiman Adan’s suspicion focused on a woman who was heavily clad in the Islamic female attire, Hijab, clasping the little boy. On being asked the travelling documents of the toddler, the woman quickly disclaimed being either the child’s mother or relative. She instead claimed that she was given the child by a man who had just boarded the Mogadishu bound plane.
Major Abdi swiftly went after the man identified by the woman, who in turn denied either being the sire or of any knowledge of the child.
It is then that a woman standing next to the suspected child kidnaper and smuggler acknowledged the baby while claiming that it was her/their daughter’s child.
All the three, plus three others who were in the car that they used earlier was parked in the vicinity, were arrested.
Five but one of the suspected child kidnappers and smugglers are reportedly from Somalia.
Meanwhile the principal immigration officer Col. Mohammed Ali Yusuf praised his departmental head and immigration officers for their diligence and asked them to step up their efforts to even better heights.
The cable circuit screens from the security cameras showed how the Hijab-clad woman and the two arrested on the plane were moving around together, with the same woman carrying the child all through.
SDN Hargeisa