The police in
Lagos are making frantic effort to find a 13-year-old girl, Chikwuo Ezennia,
who reportedly fled her house with a yet-to-be-identified ‘lover-boy’.
It was learn
through Punch Metro that Ezennia, who is in Basic 4, had
come to Lagos from Nneni village in the Anaocha Local Government Area of
Anambra State to spend her holiday with her relatives but fled
her relatives’ apartment on Ishola Bello Close, Iyalla Street, Alausa, Lagos,
in the afternoon of Thursday, November 20, when the family had gone out.
Mrs. Ambrose
Okolo, a self-employed chartered accountant and her aunt
said that Ezennia had a record of fleeing home to stay with men when she was in
the village in Anambra. However, she said the family was anxious to know the
supposed lover, who had been shielding the girl, adding that all efforts to
locate her had proved unsuccessful.
She said,
“Ezennia is just 13, but she looks big enough to be called a man’s wife. If you
see her, you will think she is a lady. She just came from the village to spend
some time with us and she is supposed to go back this December. But since that
Thursday, we have yet to find her.
“The reason I
suspect she may be with a lover is because of some recent developments. Just a
week before that incident, I travelled to Benue for a programme, and she was
alone with my children in the house. There is a phone that my children use
which contains only my number and my husband’s.
“But when she fled
home and we started the search, I picked up the phone and to my surprise, I saw
a string of strange numbers.
“The children
said Ezennia used the phone when I travelled.
“I wondered who
she might have been calling since she is new in Lagos.”
Punch Metro
learnt that calls and text messages sent to the numbers by the family since the
day of the incident had not been replied to.
Efforts by our
correspondent to obtain Ezennia’s photograph were unsuccessful as the teenager
had yet to take any since she arrived in Lagos.
The Lagos State
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident.He said Ezennia
was still on the police’s list of missing persons. “If seen, the
public should contact Alausa Police Station,” he added.
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