A six-year-old schoolgirl, Oluwajuwon
Akinsanya, has been abducted by unidentified persons at the Ojo Military
Cantonment, Lagos.
The primary one pupil of Maryam Bliss
International School, Ojo, was said to be sleeping in the room with her
parents in Block II, Flat 5, Engineer Quarters, when she was whisked
away by the abductors.
It was learnt that the men also stole the.....
phone, money and recharge cards (vouchers) of the victim’s parents.
Her
mother, Yetunde, told Punch correspondent that the family had yet to be
contacted by the abductors since the incident happened in January.
She stated that she had visited more
than 200 places seeking help, adding that she was sexually harassed in
one of the religious houses she visited.
Yetunde said, “On January 20, 2016, around 4.30am, while we were asleep, I suddenly heard a loud noise and I woke up.
“I checked the floor where my daughter
normally slept, but I didn’t see her. Her younger brother, Enoch, was on
the bed with my husband and I. I thought she went to the toilet to
urinate.
“However, when I checked the place, I
didn’t find her. It was when I got to the kitchen and met the door
opened that I knew intruders had come in. They came in from the kitchen.
“They took my bag and removed all the money there. They also emptied my purse where I kept the recharge cards I sold to people. My husband’s phone was equally taken away.”
She said she reported the matter to the
Ojo Barracks Military Police and the victim’s father was arrested. She
said the military authorities said her husband was the first suspect.
He was, however, later released and three other suspects arrested.
The suspects – Mercy Akere, Ayodeji
Akinsanya and Segun Akinsanya –were alleged to have been accused by
Yetunde of issuing threats against her family.
It was gathered that the military later released the suspects, saying there was no evidence against them.
Yetunde, a trader, said a member of her husband’s family took her to an orthodox church for help.
She alleged that the pastor after giving her a fake prophecy of her daughter’s whereabouts, sexually harassed her.
“I complained to my in-law who took me to his church, and he called the pastor in my presence to challenge him.
“The pastor told him on the telephone
that he only used a candle to rub my breasts because that was what my
child sucked; and my private parts, because that was where she came out
from. He said he did it so that the deliverance would be quicker,” she
said.
Oluwajuwon’s mother, who expressed
dissatisfaction at the way the military were handling the case, said she
asked for a transfer to a civilian police station, but the
Officer-in-Charge, Major Obot, refused.
Culled - Punch
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