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Chizoba, the missing girl and Evang. Ben, who brought her home |
Two years ago, sympathizers thronged the densely populated Amukoko,
Lagos abode of Mrs Cordelia Nnozirim, to console her over the death
of her husband. As she sat at a corner in the one-room apartment
located on Fijabi street, the distraught widow merely gave a blank
stare at everyone around, as she apparently thought of how she would
single-handedly take care of her six children.
Last week, an unprecedented crowd again besieged the home of the
widow. They came to sympathize with her over the mysterious
disappearance of her 20 year-old daughter, Chizoba Nnozirim, after her
boss sent her to lodge N500,000 into the company account.
Chizoba, as gathered, left for CLEMENS Investment Limited on the
Island, on July 18, 2012, where she works as a sales girl. Later that
day, her boss, one Mrs Veronica Ogbuchi, reportedly gave her the sum of
N500,000 to deposit in the bank, only to wait endlessly without seeing
her.
Chizoba’s unsuspecting mother who was busy selling roasted corn to
customers at an open space around Coker, was shocked when some policemen
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