The Abia Police Command has confirmed the disappearance of a tricycle operator with four kids of the same parents.
The kids whose names were given as Mmesoma, Testimony, Godswill and Chinwotito, and aged eight, four, one and half and one year, are said to be the children of one Mr Chimobi Aghah, a native of Amasiri, Afikpo North in Ebonyi State, but resident at Umuagu, Umuahia, Abia state.
Confirming the development to newsmen in Umuahia, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Command, Maureen Chinaka, said the incident was reported at the Ohuhu Police Station on November 28, 2023.
Chinaka, who disclosed that the parents of the missing children reported that the Keke operator took their children to an unknown destination, revealed that the DPO in charge of the division had swung into action, in search of the kids in the neighbourhood, including hotels.
She said an investigation was ongoing on the matter.
Daily Sun gathered that Aghah, the father of the children was in Enugu State on a business trip when the wife contracted the Keke operator, said not to be well known to her, to take her four children to school at Nkwoegwu, in the outskirts of the state capital.
It was equally gathered that instead of taking the four children to their school, the tricycle operator took them to an unknown destination.
Mother of the four missing kids came to know the fate of her children when after school dismissed, they were not back home.
According to a source, she went to the school to take her children back home, but the authorities told her the children did not come to school in the first place.
The woman was said to have informed her husband of what happened, and he immediately returned to Umuahia, went to the school and the authorities repeated the same story they told the wife.
Agha, who reported the matter to the police, was quoted as saying, “I went to work in Enugu on Monday and my wife prepared my four children for school. She paid a tricycle driver to take them to school. In the afternoon when school was supposed to be dismissed they did not return, and my wife went to their school to look for them.
“She was told by the school authorities that they did not come to school at all. My wife called me and I returned to Umuahia on Tuesday morning. I went to the school and was told the same story.
“So, I went to the police and reported the matter. They gave me four policemen and we searched for them but without success.”
While appealing to the public to help him rescue his children, Agha prayed, “God should please forgive my sins. I know I’m a sinner but I believe Jesus died for sinners like me. Please, I need my four children rescued.”
It was rumored in Umuahia and its environs at the weekend that the missing children had been found, but Agha debunked such rumor through a Radio programme, saying he was yet to see his children. (Sun)