A five-year-old girl of Iheaka town in Igbo Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State has been declared missing after she was sent on her errand by some ladies.
It was gathered that the two suspects made away with the girl in the afternoon after buying a plate of pepper soup for her mother identified as Uju Edochie.
Sources in the area told The Point that the two ladies had lodged in a hotel close to Uju’s provision shop and they had been patronising her.
The suspects had reportedly stayed in the hotel for a few days before offering to give the young girl a treat by buying her pepper soup, of which her mother also requested before allowing them to take her away.
Uju allowed her daughter to follow the ladies to get the pepper and after the girl brought her mother’s portion of the pepper soup, she returned to the ladies and ever since, her whereabouts have been unknown.
“When we started searching for the girl, the mother said the two ladies had been buying things from her provision store for about a week since they lodged into a hotel nearby and that was why she allowed her daughter to follow them in getting the pepper soup,” a resident of the area said.
Another source said, “Two young ladies came to the mother’s shop, called the little baby out to buy pepper soup for her; the mother allowed her to follow them but told the young ladies that if you buy for my baby, you will also buy for me.
“They carried her to the nearby shop said to be owned by one Ovoko, bought the pepper soup and gave the little girl to go and give her mother and come back.
“The little girl took the pepper soup to her mother and returned to the two ladies, till this moment this little girl disappeared with them and has not been found.”
