A 27 year-old mother of a kidnapped three-month old baby, Ijeoma Oparaeche, has cried to Governor Hope Uzodinma and Inspector General of Police, Usman Akali Baba, to prevail on all police formations in Imo State to help find her child.
The traumatised mum also appealed to religious organisations, families and non-governmental organisations in the state to assist her in finding her missing baby. Ijeoma, who spoke in Owerri, Imo State, said her family has been devastated after her child was stolen by a strange man who wanted to marry her The Trumpet gathered.
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The 27 year-old mother, who has yet to come to terms with the shocking and devastating incident, said since one Mr Obinna Eze, from Ikeduru LGA, who is cooling off at the state CID Owerri, came in the company of her sister to kidnap her baby, her life has crashed.
She said she had not set her eyes on her baby since the incident occurred on December 26, 2021.
Ijeoma, who was weeping intermittently as she narrated her ordeal said, “I don’t even know if my baby is alive as we speak now. After Eze came to my family house in Obazu Mbieri, in Mbaitoli Council Area for the introduction and collection of marriage list, he told my mother, a helpless widow that I should come with them to meet his family members and she agreed.
“While heading to his family house on December 26th 2021, he pleaded that we stop by the market and buy some tubers of yam and I obliged his request. “He then urged me to give my child to his sister so that
I would be free to carry the yam and other things to be purchased, then I left my child in his sister’s care in a private car they came with.” She said the man’s sister took the baby from her, alongside a piece of cloth used as the wrapper.
She further lamented that after buying the yams, the man asked her to take it to the car to enable him buy other things, but eventually fled in the process.
Her words: “After purchasing the tubers of yams, he asked me to drop them in the car, while he gets other food items. On getting to the car park, I saw nobody and went back to the place I left the man.”
The traumatised mother said it was at this point she realised the assailant had escaped, and she raised an alarm. She said since then, it was only on the 18th of March, 2022, that my elder brother Chibueze Oparaeche, saw him and called the attention of Obazu Neighborhood Watch and he was arrested at Umuchoke Obazu.
She said she had earlier reported the matter at the state CID but nothing positive came out of it. She said, “I am begging our Gov. Uzodinma, IGP Akali, to use their good office and prevail on police formations in the country to help me investigate the matter and get my son. I am also appealing to other security agencies towade into the matter. My appeals also go to Nigerians and non-governmental organisations, to assist me in finding the child.
She said her life has crashed. I am injured and devastated, Since the man was apprehended, nothing positive has happened, since there is no good response from the police.
