Monday, April 21, 2025 - Uku community in the Aniocha South Council Area of Delta State was thrown into confusion over the weekend following the abduction of four children.
The children are six-year-old Ebube Nwafido and her
three-year-old sister Miracle, both from the same parents, and two other
girls—seven-year-old Chimanda and five-year-old Excel, alias Tinubu, also from
different parents.
Reports from the area say residents of Umuokwe Quarters,
where the crime occurred, are pointing accusing fingers at three women who had
secured emergency accommodation in the neighborhood last Monday, April 14,
2025.
Nigerian Tribune learned that the women allegedly lured the
children on Friday, April 18, pretending to buy them biscuits from a popular
supermarket in the community.
The women had earlier approached Mrs. Bose Nwafido, asking
if she could help them find a one-room accommodation
Mrs. Nwafido lamented:
“It was last Monday when the three women came asking me for a
house to rent. I pointed them in a direction, but moments later, one of them
came back and said she drank Pepsi and zobo and that she was having a running
stomach; she asked to use our toilet.
“I took the lady to the back of our house where she defecated
in a bush. Afterwards, she told me she was going to withdraw money from a POS
to pay for the accommodation.
“The lady later came back when I left for the market and took
my 10-year-old son, Ifechukwude, to see their house. That’s when they started
showing kindness to the children. Unbeknownst to many, they had evil plans.”
According to her, she left the children on Friday morning
for a program, instructing them to play within the compound as usual.
“At about 12 noon, some children came back to say the aunty
wanted to buy biscuits for them. That’s how my children went to the house when
I wasn’t around.”
It was gathered that when the children and the other two
could not be found around the compound after some time, neighbors grew
concerned. When they visited the women’s apartment, neither the occupants nor
the children could be found; the room was empty.
The father of Ebube and Miracle, Kingsley Nwafido, and his
wife, who are both heavily traumatized, expressed shock over the sudden
disappearance of their children.
The spokesperson of Delta State Police Command, SP Bright
Edafe, confirmed the incident, adding that investigations are ongoing.
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