A suspected child kidnapper has been arrested in Lagos.

The suspect, whose name was given as Eno was exposed by the ceaseless cry of a four-month-old baby on Monday.

The woman was carrying the infant and three other children to an unknown destination when nemesis caught up with her.

The Nation reports that the cry of the baby, carried by Eno, the suspected kidnapper, who was accompanied by a teenager, inside an Iddo, Lagos-bound Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) vehicle, attracted other passengers.

Worried by the baby’s loud cry, other women inside the bus asked Eno to breastfeed her but she refused. She was also unable to pet the baby to stop crying.

Suspecting a fowl play, the passengers were said to have alerted men of Iddo Police Station, Railway Terminus, who swiftly arrested her and her accomplice.

At the police station, Eno again refused all efforts by the men of the Nigeria police to breastfeed the baby. Instead, she brought out a feeding bottle containing an orange-colour watery substance, which the baby refused to take.

Eno, who initially told the police that she lives at Iyana-Oba, Majidun in Ikorodu, later said she stays at Igando.

Asked for her husband’s phone number, she claimed she does not know it, adding that she does not have a phone.

Although the suspects insisted Eno is the children’s mother, one of the victims, Happiness denied knowing either of them.

Happiness however said she lives at the Air Force Base, Ikeja and gave her father’s name as Effiong. She said they were taken from their home by the woman.

“That woman is not my mother. My name is Happiness. This is my sister Patience. My daddy’s name is Effiong. He is at the Air Force Base.

“My mother and daddy are in the house. I do not know her (Eno); she is not my mother. And I do not know her,” she said while responding to questions.

Eno again changed her story, saying the children’s father is one Effiong who works as a cleaner at the Air Force Base.

“They are my children, I am their mother. If you think I am lying, let us go to the Air Force Base and meet their father.

“I was arrested by former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola when she (Happiness) was like this baby I am carrying now. Their father signed the paper for Fashola to take me away.

“It was while I was with Fashola that I gave birth to this one (Patience) and this one I’m carrying now is four months old. I have five children, two with another man and these three with Effiong,” she claimed.