After kidnapping four children, he was trapped in the Ogwashi UKU community in the southern parliamentary area of Delta State University over the weekend.
The children are six-year-old Ebube Nwafido and her three-year-old sister Miracle, both miracles from the same parents, and two other girls – seven-year-old Chimanda and five-year-old Excel, Alias Tinubu, also from different parents.
The area reported that residents of the Eumuvi area where the crime occurred accused three women of getting emergency accommodation nearby on Monday, April 14, 2025.
The Nigeria Tribune heard that the women allegedly attracted children on Friday, April 18, pretending to buy cookies from a popular supermarket in the community.
The women had approached Mrs. Bose Nwafido earlier and asked if she could help them find a single room accommodation
Mrs. Nwafido sighed:
“Last Monday, these three women came and asked me to rent a house. I pointed them in one direction, but after a while, one of them came back and said she had drinks Pepsi and Zopo, she was running, she was running; she asked for use of our toilet.
“I took the lady to the back of the house where she defecated in the bushes. After that, she told me she was withdrawing money from POS to pay for the accommodation.
“The lady came back later and when I left the market and took my 10-year-old son Ifechukwude to see their house. At that time they began to show kindness to the children. Not known to many, they had evil plans.”
According to her, she left the kids on Friday morning for a show instructing them to play in the compound as usual.
“About noon, some kids came back and said that my aunt wanted to buy them cookies. That’s how my kids went to the house when they weren’t around.”
According to the gathering, when the children and the other two were not found around the compound, the neighbors began to worry. When they visited the women’s apartment, no occupants and children were found. The room is empty.
Ebube and Miracle’s father, Kingsley Nwafido, and his wife, were both traumatized and expressed shock at the sudden disappearance of the child.
SP Bright EDAFE, a spokesman for the Triangle State Police Department, confirmed the incident, adding that an investigation is underway.
