How Three Youngsters Had been Kidnapped In Abakaliki As Police React
Three youngsters, two males and a feminine, have been kidnapped in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.
The incident occurred on the weekend reverse Nkwagu Navy Cantonment, Nkwagu Village, in Abakaliki Native Authorities Space of the state.
The kidnapped youngsters belonged to 2 separate moms, Mrs Happiness Ofunna Gladys and Mrs Nworie Oluchi.
The suspects had, on the night time of the day prior to this, come into their compound, held discussions with their landlord after which spent the night time in one of many empty rooms earlier than allegedly abducting the kids.
Mrs Happiness Gladys Ofunna narrated the incident:
“I went to the market within the early hours of that day to purchase some items for my enterprise.
“On attending to the place I went to purchase my items, I obtained a misery name that two of my youngsters has been stolen. I instantly rushed again to the compound and noticed individuals in clusters discussing.
“From the data obtainable and the story that the neighbors narrated to me, the three ladies that stole my youngsters, a boy and a woman had been the identical ladies that spent the night time in our compound the day prior to this. My two youngsters they took are between the ages of 1 and two years.
“I’m nonetheless confused how individuals might merely come into an setting simply to steal youngsters.
“No one suspected something and that’s why I’m nonetheless shocked over what occurred. I need to attraction to the safety businesses to make sure that the ladies are apprehended to function a deterrent to others.”
On her half, Mrs Nworie Oluchi mentioned the suspects got here to the compound within the night.
“After I returned from the market on that sixth, to arrange night meals, I noticed the ladies sitting exterior near the compound with our landlord discussing. I went inside and began cooking with suspecting something.
“Within the morning once I awoke, I made a decision to scrub some garments. After some time, I began searching for that my son they stole to manage to him his medication. After I known as him and didn’t get any response, I requested the opposite siblings his approach about and so they instructed me, that one of many ladies requested him to purchase biscuits for the opposite youngsters.
“I rushed to the place the ladies had been sitting and requested after my son, one in all them instructed me that they despatched him to purchase biscuits and instantly volunteered to go and convey him again. I went into my home to alter my garments in order to go and convey my boy again, earlier than I might come out, the kids within the compound raised alarm that the ladies had entered a tricycle and zoomed off with the three youngsters.
“I now raised alarm however sadly, earlier than individuals might come out, they might now not be traced. That’s how my 2 yr previous boy was stolen in our compound.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Joshua Ukandu, mentioned the three youngsters had been stolen from their home on the Nkwagu village by some ladies who visited the compound on the sixth of February 2026.
Ukandu mentioned that the matter has been reported to the Central Police Station (CPS), Abakaliki, by the victims’ mother and father, including that the matter is being investigated by the police to unravel the circumstances behind the unlucky incident.
He famous that the State Commissioner of Police had, throughout a latest assembly with the Landlords Affiliation in Abakaliki, directed the affiliation to at all times make sure the identification of these they’re giving out their homes to and to make sure that additionally they current guarantors earlier than they’re given homes.
It was gathered that the incident, which occurred at about 7:30 a.m. on seventh February 2026, threw the world into panic and rigidity and attracted sympathisers, as many ladies and men gathered in clusters discussing the incident.
A few of the sympathisers who spoke to journalists described the incident as unlucky and heartbreaking and maintained that the problem of kid theft is turning into a daily prevalence in Ebonyi State.
They known as on the state authorities and different related authorities to teach mother and father, particularly moms, on the necessity to not permit their youngsters to be seen with, or hanging round, strangers, as that has typically resulted in lacking youngsters and baby theft.