A boy who was
abducted from his parents as a toddler has been finally rescued by the police
in Abia after a one year investigation.
The Commissioner of
Police in Abia State, Mr. Adeyele Oyebade, has reunited one Master Joseph
Okafor, who was stolen from his parents on the 27th of May, 2015 at Eluma
Lokpaukwu in Umunneochi Local Council with parents, Punch reports.
While handing over
the two-year-old boy to his father, Mr. Francis Okafor, the CP said the little
Okafor was abducted on the said date by two men, one Chibuike Uzoegwu and
Ezenwa Nwazue, from their family house and taken to an unknown destination.
Oyebade added that
the suspects were later arrested and charged to court by the police, but the
child had yet to be found then.
The CP added that effort
were further intensified by the police to find the boy, which yielded fruits as
the little Joseph was seen in a church at Okigwe, Imo State on the 17th of
August 2016 in the custody of one Emelda Iduma, who hails from Afikpo, Eboyi
State.
He said, “The
suspect had already renamed the little boy David Kelechukwu Iduma. She
confessed that her late husband, one John Iduma, adopted the little boy
sometime in May 2015.”
Oyebade described
child theft as a crime against God and humanity, while warning members of the
public to always go through the normal procedure of child adoption if they had
the intention to adopt a child.
Speaking with
Southern City News, the suspect, a 60-year-old retired teacher, said her late
husband Iduma, convinced her that the boy was properly adopted with papers that
showed evidence of the child’s adoption, but she lost those papers while
relocating from her former resident.
She supported the
reunion of the boy with his rightful parents, adding that she never intended to
hurt the boy, whom she named David and pleaded that she should be pardoned by
the law enforcement agent.
However, the father
of the boy, Mr. Okafor thanked God for the recovery of his son by the men of
the Nigerian Police.
He said, “I have
been very happy since my son was found because my wife and I have not been
sleeping well since our son was stolen. I thank God for giving me my son back.
Okafor pleaded that
the suspect should be pardoned since she did not hurt the boy, adding that he
will take the boy to visit her when he grows up.
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