Ayomidele Oluwasusi
Lagos – A man is on the run after brutalising his children in Nigeria’s Lagos State, police said on Saturday.
Kadiri Yusuf allegedly beat and injured his two children aged 11 and 13 in the Agege area of the southwestern state, said SP Benjamin Hundeyin, spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command.
Hundeyin said that the fleeing suspect assaulted his children on Friday at 5:00 p.m, and noted that a concerned member of the public lodged a complaint at the police station.
“The head teacher of a primary school in Orile Agege reported at Elere Division that one of her pupils, a female, 11, reported to her that her father beat her and her elder brother, 13, causing them bodily injury,’’ he said.
The police spokesman said that both victims had been retrieved, treated and handed over to their mother’s sister for safe custody.
Hundeyin said that efforts to apprehend the fleeing father were in top gear.