Many people have been declared missing from different locations in Lagos, this year. There are some that were said to have mental challenges, yet there are others who were either kidnapped or their whereabouts could not be traced.
In some cases, the police had succeeded in rescuing missing people while the unlucky ones remain missing.
A young man, Matthew Igbodo went to Amukoko area with his friends on Sallah day in 2014, till date he remains missing.
His mother, who resides at Yinusa Sanni Street in Ajegunle area of the metropolis , said she had wept for so long.
She said, “I have cried for many years over my missing son. I don’t know what they did with my son. I don’t know whether somebody used him for ritual purpose. I leave everything in the hand of God.”
A 4-year- old boy was also abducted and moved away in a tricycle by a strange woman and the driver, at Ugbenwankwo Street, Ajegunle, recently.
The woman was said to have lured the victim, Kazim Bello, with a juice drink and biscuit and that was how he fell into her trap.
The abductor was said to have carried Kazim from his father’s residence into the tricycle, and the waiting male driver zoomed off with them.
The father of the stolen child, Mohammed Bello, has lamented that two months after his son was abducted by a woman who lured him with juice drink and biscuit, his whereabouts has remained unknown.
The unidentified woman wanted to abduct two children who were playing in their residence. After promising to buy juice and biscuit for the duo, they were following her when suddenly Yusuf said ,”I’m not going into the tricycle with you. I don’t know you. Leave my hand.” The woman abandoned Yusuf but left with his friend,
Kazim.
The father of the victim, Mohammed Bello has cried out to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal and the officer in charge of Anti- Kidnapping in Lagos State Police Command, CSP Bulus Musa to please rescue his son from his abductor.
Bello said, “Recently I had that a boy of my son’s age was rescued in Kano State. We were very apprehensive. I was praying that it
would
be my son that was rescued. Unfortunately, it was another person because we watched it on television later. I have been moving around and making calls to anybody who knows me to assist and give me or police information that could be used to locate his whereabouts. The police and other security agencies should help me so that my son would return home. I’m begging the police especially. They should assist me as they did for others so that I can see my son
again.”
