Woman arrested for holding grandson in chains for months, claims it’s to prevent him from absconding from home

A grandmother identified as Yemi Kazeem, has been arrested for padlocking and chaining a twelve-year-old boy, Segun Azeez for over three months.

It was gathered that Segun’s mother, Yomi Kazeem who’s an auxiliary nurse by profession, reportedly provided the chain and padlock with which he was tied to a spot at home for over three months.

Yomi and her mother confessed that the motive behind chaining the boy was to prevent him from fleeing home.

The grandmother revealed that the boy was stubborn. According to her, Segun was decided to be chained down to prevent him from stealing and further fleeing home. The woman said she suspected that Segun was having spiritual problems and had been fasting and praying so that what troubles him could be evicted.

Also, the boy’s biological mother said she was not aware that chaining Segun to a stake was a crime, adding that she bought the chain for the purpose of confining him to save the grandmother the stress of searching for him should he flee home.

In a swift response to rescue the boy, the Police Commissioner, Ahmed Illiyasu, led over a dozen armed policemen and Operatives of the Federal Anti – Robbery Squad, FSARS to a bland bungalow on Ife – Lagba, Obada town, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State.

After being rescued, Segun broke down in tears and narrated how his ordeal started.

According to him, it all began in his paternal family in Sagamu, where he alleged, someone, charmed him and which made him detest home and kept fleeing from it.

The boy said he was accustomed to deprivations and hunger which compelled him to stop his education at primary three in Sagamu, adding that when his mother brought him to Obada town from Sagamu, he had thought his sufferings would lessen but unknown to him it was just a continuation in another dimension.

Police Commissioner, Illiyasu, described the ill-treatment Segun as inhuman and heinous, and capable of leading to “ritual killing or child disappearance.”