A landlady has repaid her former
tenants’ love in a strange and painful manner – she abducted their twins.
The police at Abayi Division, Abia
State, are holding a woman identified simply as Chioma for allegedly abducting
the twin boys of her ex-tenants Mr. and Mrs. Okwudili Nwaeze.
It was gathered that Chioma visited
her former tenants’ home to, according to sources, exchange pleasantries with
them.“
Mrs. Nwaeze, who was on her way to
the bathroom, apparently uncomfortable with the visitor, changed her mind and
waited until she (Chioma) left the compound.
Mrs. Nwaeze was said to have gone
back to the bathroom, leaving her twins (James and John) inside their room,
unknown to her that her ex-land lady was still in the compound.
A source close to the Nwaeze family
said: “When she finally returned to their room, the twin babies (James and
John) had disappeared. It was at this point that she started to raise alarm.
In agony, she began a desperate
search for her babies. Neighbours who had seen Chioma carry the babies told Mrs
Nwaeze that her ex-tenant had the babies.
An Afor Ule market trader, Abayi
Aba, said nobody suspected that Chioma abducted the babies beacuse she had
lived with the children’s parents before the incident.
She said Chioma, on getting to Afor
Ule junction, flagged down a commercial tricycle driver, who took her and the
kids away.
An unconfirmed report said Chioma
had, at the initial contact with the children’s family, demanded a ransom of
about N10million, which the family told her they did not have.
On how the ex-tenant was apprehended
by the police, sources said she was caught by some people selling wares at the
Afor Ule market. They spotted her while she was attempting to drop the children
on the main road.
They took her to the Abayi
Divisional police station where the Nwaezes had reported that their children
were missing.
When contacted, the Abia State
Police PPRO, Geoffrey Ogbonna, said he was yet to be briefed on the incident.
But, a police source at the Abayi
Police Division confirmed the incident, adding that the police were still
investigating the matter.
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