Hunger Or Poverty? Man Exchanges 2 Siblings For Bags Of Rice
As
economic recession hit hard on Nigerian citizens, an unidentified middle-aged
man, Wednesday, abducted two siblings, who were returning from extra-moral
class in Satellite area of Lagos and exchanged them for two bags of rice
in a shop at 63, Marwa Road, near Chemist Bus Stop.
The
children are aged eight and 13. It was gathered that at the shop, the abductor
told the sales girl that he would like to take two bags of rice to the mother
of the children, whom he claimed owned a restaurant close-by, to ascertain
whether the rice was the brand she needed.
Speaking
with journalists, owner of the shop, Mrs Silverline, explained that “he (the
abductor) told my sales girl that the mother of the children needed Indian
rice, but my sales girl told him that what we had was Brazilian rice and that
it was good.
“Thereafter,
he made a phone call to someone he claimed was the mother of the children and
at the end said he would like to take the bags of rice to the woman. But my
girl insisted on following him to collect the money for the bags (N40,000)
should the woman agree to buy them.
“The
stranger said he would ride on a motorcycle with the bags of rice, while my
girl followed with the children on foot. But on reaching the purported
restaurant, the owner said she never saw any one with bags of rice, neither did
she admit knowing the children.
“They
walked to Ijegun end of Satellite without any sight of the abductor. When we
asked the children about him, they said that the abductor was not their
father.”
An
eyewitness, Ifeoma John, said that immediately the abductor left with the bags
of rice, a man who claimed to be the biological father of the children,
arrived, alleging that his children could have been hypnotised by the abductor.
He
contacted policemen from Satellite Division, who took everyone involved to the
station, from where the children were released to their parents.
Source: http://leadership.ng/news/548953/hunger-or-poverty-man-exchanges-2-siblings-for-bags-of-rice
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