Mercy Akande, a 7-year-old girl, has been abducted by her mother’s male customer.
Mercy’s mother operates a Point of Sale terminal (PoS) terminal in the Sango Ota area of Ogun State.
On Monday, Dec. 23, a yet-to-be-identified male adult said to be the mother’s regular customer visited the shop, bought food for the seven-year-old girl, and later sent her on an errand to buy a sachet of water.
As the girl was returning from the errand, the customer left the shop and approached her midway in an attempt to collect the water sachet.
The girl’s mother saw both of them at that moment but was briefly distracted by the attention of other customers.
When the mother returned her attention to the spot where she saw her daughter and the customer, both of them were nowhere to be found.
The mother immediately launched a search for her daughter but did not find her.
They called the male customer’s phone but he did not respond until his line was no longer reachable.
An X user who claims to be the missing girl’s cousin took to the microblogging platform to beg for the public’s help.
He stated that the mother was asked to pay N10,000 to report the case and also told to bring N30,000 to track the man’s phone number.
“We have reported to a police station in Sango and the struggling mom has been asked to pay a total of 10k to report the case (she has done that). And to bring N30,000 for the guy’s phone number to be tracked. She’ll be going back there tomorrow to pay.
“As it is now. Work has not even started. She only paid N8000 to write her statement at the station and a total of N2000 to print out pictures of the missing girl. Then to track the phone number, she has to pay the sum of N30,000 and get a court affidavit to take to MTN office,” he wrote.
He however lamented that efforts to get a court affidavit were not successful due to the holiday.
