15-Year-Old Abducted in Ikeja- Lagos While Going for UTME
The family members of a 15-year-old girl, Rita Clement, say they have
not known peace of mind since Thursday when she was abducted by
unidentified persons while on her way to sit for the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination in Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that Clement, who lived with her relatives on
Gboyega Kilo Street in the Ojodu Berger area, and had UTME registration
number 65061660GJ, was to sit for the exam at 6.30am on that day.
Our correspondent, who obtained Clement’s examination printout,
gathered that the examination centre was the West African Examination
Council, International office on Plot B, Lateef Jakande Road, Agidingbi,
Lagos.
It was learnt that the teenager, who sat for her Senior Secondary
Certificate Examination last year, had left home around 5.30am for
Agidingbi.
Our correspondent gathered that at about 5pm, Clement sent a text
message to her mother’s mobile phone, raising the alarm that she had
been abducted and she did not know the location where she was taken to.
The matter was said to have been reported at the Ojodu Police
Division on Friday and had been transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery
Squad, Ikeja.
In the text message which Clement’s uncle, Emeka Orazulike, showed
our correspondent, the teenager wrote that the abductors had seized her
phone since morning and she only managed to write a text through
someone’s assistance.
She wrote, “Mummy, they took my phone and beat me up inside the bus.
Mummy, I don’t know where they took me to. They made me sleep and said
they will kill me if I ran.
“Someone gave me my phone, saying I must return it before they came back. Mummy, please save me, please.”
The uncle, who worked as a pharmacist, said it was through the text
message that the family got to know that Clement was not missing, but
abducted.
He said, “Rita (Clement) finished from a college on Aina Street in
the Ojodu area. She just concluded her SSCE; we then enrolled her for
the UTME. Her father lives in Enugu.
“The examinations board gave her that Thursday, by 6.30am, to sit for
her exam. She was to sit at a centre in the Agidingbi area. On that
day, as I was preparing for work around 6am, she met and told me that
she was set to leave for the venue.
“I gave her N1,000 when she told me the centre was at Agidingbi. She would use only N100 for transport. I then left for work.
“As I was coming back around 6.30pm, her mother called that she
forwarded a message to my telephone. I then checked my phone and saw the
scary message. I first went to the Area F Command, Ikeja, and was about
making a statement when the Area Commander directed me to the Ojodu
Police Division.
“We reported the matter on Friday at Ojodu, and the police there radioed other stations.”
Orazulike added that when they called the girl’s phone, it rang out on Thursday, adding that it had been switched off by Friday.
“She did sit for that exam. The abductors might have whisked her away in the bus she boarded on that morning.
“She was used to going out. When she wrote her WAEC, her centre was at Giwa Oke Aro, Agbado. She went there with her friends.
“That was why when she mentioned that she was going to Agidingbi for
the UTME, I did not nurse any fear because it was just two bus stops
from our area. If we knew that anything would happen, I would have taken
her there myself,” he added.
Our correspondent learnt that the Divisional Police Officer in Ojodu
took the family members to the SARS office, Ikeja, on Monday and the
SARS commander assured them that he would detail his men to rescue the
girl.
However, the family had yet to hear from the police as of Wednesday.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos,
had yet to reply to a text message sent to her phone on the abduction.
PUNCH
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