By Damilola Kushimo
The father of the missing boy found in Ajao Estate by personnel of Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps (LNSC), Isolo chapter has appreciated the corps officers for their diligence in handling his child.
The father, Mr. Joe Joseph, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, expressed profound gratitude to the corps led by Corps Superintendent Funmilola Adekile for their role in how the boy was found and taken to Juvenile Centre, Alakara.
ECHONEWS reported that the boy, Godwin Joseph, was found roaming the streets in Isolo by the personnel of the neighbourhood corps attached to Coca-Cola bus stop in Ajao Estate on Monday, May 17, 2021.
The boy was allegedly rejected by officers of the Ajao Estate Police division before the Neighbourhood Corps took him to the Juvenile Centre in Alakara where the family was able to find him after three days of searching for him.
Joseph explained that the boy went missing from their church, Assemblies of God church, Isolo, on Sunday, May 16 and that all efforts to find him proved abortive after complaining at Ago Okota and Aswani Police Stations.
He explained that it was a church member who is a police officer in Ago-Okota division that advised him to go to the Juvenile centre in Alakara where the boy was eventually found on Tuesday.
“I want to appreciate the personnel of LNSC for their great work especially their role in how the boy was found because we were made to understand that the officers of Ajao Estate Police station refused to take custody of the boy and the Neighbourhood Corps had to take the boy to the juvenile centre by themselves. We appreciate this effort because it saved us some stress in our search.”
