How the abducted children befriended the children of their captor

fuad lawal

April 18, 2015 1:28 PM

The three Orekoya kids, Aderomi,11 months old, Adedamola, 4, Demola, 6, who were finally reunited with their family on Wednesday, having spent seven days in the hands of kidnappers.

The Orekoya kids.

Although they haven't been able to fully grasp the state they were in their one week of captivity, they have been able to describe life in captivity, and even playfully.

Demola answered most of the answers thrown to him.

Funmilayo Adeyemi, 35, the abductor of the three kids, has four of her own. Those four children quickly turned to tools of her heinous business after the Orekoya boys were brought home.

In order to ensure the children did not miss home too much, Adeyemi allowed the children play with her own children.

Demola said that neither he nor brothers cried when they did not see their mother in those seven days.

“The woman asked us to play with her children. We all played together, though their television was not working, we only played around the house. We did not cry because we had people to play with,” the boy said.

He went further, “She (Adeyemi) brushed our teeth every morning but she only bathed us in the morning. She did not bathe us in the night like our mummy does for us at home.”

The children love cartoons but that was too much of a luxury for them to enjoy in captivity.

“We could not watch cartoon network because the television in their house was not working,” little Demola said.

He said he misses his friends and could not wait to play with them again, but that surely will be under the watchful eyes of their mother, Adebisi Orekoya.

Adebisi said in an interview that she is still in shock and has not been able to let her children out of her sight since they got back.

“For now, they would remain in my sight. I have to remain with them,” she said.

Meanwhile, since the arrest of Adeyemi, who was tracked down through her mobile phone on Wednesday, the police have said investigation was still ongoing on the case.

Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Kenneth Nwosu, said efforts were being made to arrest other fleeing accomplices.

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