A distressing incident unfolded as Mr. Chimaobi Agah, a middle-aged man from Amasiri, Ebonyi State, pleads for help after a tricycle operator, hired to transport his four children to school, disappears with the kids.
The heart-wrenching event occurred on Monday, November 27, leaving Mr. Agah devastated and desperate for the safe return of his eight, one, four, and year-and-a-half-old children.
In a viral video, Mr. Agah, who had been away in Enugu State at the time, recounts how his wife entrusted the tricycle driver with the responsibility of taking their children to school from their residence near the State Criminal Investigative Department CID station in Umuahia to Nkwoegwu community on the outskirts of the city.
Wailing uncontrollably in the video, he said,
“My name is Chimaobi Agah, from Amasiri in Ebonyi State. I went to work in Enugu on Monday and my wife prepared my four children for school. She paid a KEKE (tricycle) driver to take them to school. In the afternoon when school was supposed to dismiss they did not return, and my wife went to their school to look for them.
“ She was told by the school authorities that they did not come to school at all. My wife called me and I returned to Umuahia on Tuesday morning. I went to the school and was told the same story.
“So, I went to the police and reported it. They gave me four police men and we searched for them but without success. They asked me to come back the next day and make a statement. They also asked me to go to radio station and make an announcement. I have done all these and till now I have not seen them.
“The public should please help me. God should please forgive my sins. I know I’m a sinner but I believe Jesus died for sinners like me. Please I need my four children rescued.”
Mr. Agah dropped his phone number (07057279866) and urges anyone with information on the whereabouts of his children to come forward.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Moureen Chinaka, was yet to receive details of the incident at the time of inquiry, and attempts to reach Mr. Agah proved unsuccessful as his phone was switched off.
| Vanguard
