Three Siblings Disappear From Abuja School, Teachers, Proprietor Detained

Residents of the Kabusa village in the Federal Capital Territory are concerned over the disappearance of three siblings.

On Tuesday, the three children, Marvelous, Alex, and Rehoboth Sunday, were reported missing from their school, Star Child Academy.

Their mother had gone to pick them up from their school in the ECWA One district of Kabusa, but they were unable to be found, according to locals.

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Efforts by their mother, the school personnel, and locals to locate them were alleged to be fruitless.

Women in the community protested the incident, picketing the school and the police station in the area.

Residents searched every nook and cranny of Kabusa from the day of the tragedy until Wednesday, according to a family acquaintance, Benson Ubong, who added that the children had not been discovered.

Ubong said, “The father of the three children is my colleague and we live in the same area. Around 1.28pm on Tuesday, we were sitting together and having some conversation when a call from his wife came in. She said she went to the school to pick up the three children, but they were nowhere to be found. The father immediately put a call through to the owner of the school.

“The woman was not really cooperating at that moment; their dad was upset. About 20 minutes later, he left the place of work and dashed to his residence. He then reported the incident at a police station.

“On Wednesday, women in the community, both young and old, protested at the school and the police station. After then, there was information that somewhere around Waru, there were corpses of some children; we went there and there was nothing like that.

“Up till now, we don’t know where they are; their parents and the entire community have been thrown into mourning. The family recently lost one of their children and now all of the surviving children are nowhere to be found. They are two females and one male. The first one is eight years old, the second is six years old and the last is two years old.”

DSP Josephine Adeh, a spokesperson for the FCT police, verified the event.

She claimed that all of the school’s teachers, as well as the proprietor, had been arrested as a result of the incident.

Adeh said, “The matter was reported to us. We have arrested all the teachers and the proprietor of the school. The case has now been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department.”

In a related issue, residents of Chukuku in the Kuje area council of the FCT protested on Thursday against the area’s constant kidnappings.

Residents lit bonfires and barricaded the Kuje/Gwagwalada Road, pleading for the federal government to intervene in the area’s instability.

Vehicles were diverted to Gwagwalada from Kuje via the Kuje-Airport Road as a result of the blockade.

Bandits have been having a field day in the town, according to a resident who only offered his first name, Austin.

The kidnapping of three residents on Thursday, he said, sparked the demonstration.

He said, “This is getting too much. Bandits have been operating freely in our community. In the early hours of Thursday, they operated here for hours and took away two men and one woman. The residents were angry because of that and decided to protest against the abductions in the area.

“This is not the only incident; week in and week out we experience attacks by bandits in this community. Why do we have a government then if our lives and property are not secured? The government must live up to its task and provide adequate security in the community.”