Tenant Vanishes with Neighbor’s Four Children, Three Days After Moving into House in Abia
A new female tenant in Umuahia, the Abia State Capital, have disappeared with four children of her neighbor.
The children include three girls and one boy, whose ages range from five to six years.
The tenant moved into the house just three days before vanishing with the four children.
The State Police Command spokesperson, Maureen Chinaka, reported the incident to the central police station on December 17, a day after the woman disappeared with the children.
Chinaka urged anyone with vital information on the whereabouts of the fleeing tenant or the stolen children to report to the police.
She added that the police had already arrested four suspects.
Within the first two days, they endeared themselves into the heart of the rest of their neighbours as women who love children by playing with them, buying them gifts and as well sending them on errands, and at a time, went to buy brooms and other things with one of the grown-up children that later escaped abduction from the suspects.
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However, Madam Ifeanyi Uduma (33 years) treaded with caution, though not suspecting any foul intention by the suspect. Uduma stated, “On one occasion, the suspects questioned why my child came out of their house wearing a white cloth with red spots, which I quickly removed from the child.”
Uduma, who came to Umuahia from Ohafia this year, narrated that, having faced hardship in her hometown, she decided to relocate with her children to Umuahia. This move was to allow her sister, Ngozi Kingsley, to assist her with her fish business at the local markets.
According to her, within two days, the suspect and her friend cook food and give it to the children who will playfully enter into the suspect’s room.
That yesterday (Saturday), she bought them drinks and gave them biscuits and later gave them food to eat. The suspect also gave another tenant in the house food, and even me.
Later, they dressed my last child in white clothing with red sports flowers. My child came to me excited to show me.
I removed the cloth and dressed my child with her cloth and the woman came and asked me why I removed the cloth from my child and I told her that I wanted my child to wear my cloth.
Later, I saw her accomplice moving out with a sack bag with the clothes packed and the white ones on top and I asked her where she was going.
She said she wanted to go and buy things at the city centre while she had told another woman in the compound that she was going to give her sister the clothes she bought for her.
This one is a little slim while the main suspect is black, fat, and has bleaching marks on her leg.
When the other one left, the fat one came out to where the children were playing that Friday evening, the children rallied around the suspect playing and demanding bobo drinks.
I left to fetch water and came back not to see them. I sent someone to go and know where the woman took the children and they were nowhere to be seen.
That was how I started looking for them.
